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.
Giacconi in 2003
Harvey Tananbaum, Riccardo Giacconi, Martin C. Weisskopf (Chandra Project Scientist) and Claude R. Canizares (PI for one of Chandra's instruments)
The European Organisation for Astronomical Research in the Southern Hemisphere, commonly referred to as the European Southern Observatory, is an intergovernmental research organisation made up of 16 m
Riccardo Giacconi
…of the Space Telescope Science Institute (the science operations center for the Hubble Space Telescope). This was followed by Director General of the European Southern Observatory (ESO) from 1993 to 1999, overseeing the construction of the Very Large Telescope, then President of Associated Universities, Inc. (1999-2004) managing…
The ESO headquarters in Garching, Germany, in 1997
The same site in 2014, a year after a new extension was built (in the foreground)
Directors general of ESO (from left to right): Lodewijk Woltjer, Harry van der Laan, Catherine Cesarsky, Tim de Zeeuw and Xavier Barcons
La Silla cluster of telescopes