Remo Ruffini
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Remo Ruffini is an Italian astrophysicist. He is the Director of ICRANet, International Centre for Relativistic Astrophysics Network and one of the founders of the International Centre for Relativisti
Ruffini, Remo
Riccardo Giacconi
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Riccardo Giacconi was an Italian-American Nobel Prize-winning astrophysicist who laid down the foundations of X-ray astronomy. He was a professor at the Johns Hopkins University.
Remo Ruffini
…paradigm which enabled the identification of the first Black Hole in the Milky Way Galaxy, Cygnus X1, using the splendid data of the Uhuru satellite by Riccardo Giacconi and his group. For these works, Ruffini won the A. Cressy Morrison Award of the New York Academy of Sciences in 1972…
Giacconi in 2003
Harvey Tananbaum, Riccardo Giacconi, Martin C. Weisskopf (Chandra Project Scientist) and Claude R. Canizares (PI for one of Chandra's instruments)