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	Headlines@Hopkins: Johns Hopkins University News Releases
		Riccardo Giacconi (pictured at right), announced today as a co-recipient of this year's Nobel Prize in physics, is a research professor in the Physics and Astronomy Department of the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences at the Johns Hopkins University.
		From 1982 to 1997, Giacconi was a Johns Hopkins professor of physics and astronomy.
		Currently president of Associated Universities, Incorporated, the corporation that co-administers the National Radio Astronomy Observatory with the National Science Foundation, Giacconi previously served from 1981 to 1993 as director of the Space Telescope Science Institute, the NASA center that operates and administers the orbiting Hubble Space Telescope from a facility on Johns Hopkins' Homewood campus.
	www.jhu.edu /news_info/news/home02/oct02/nobel.html (547 words)

	Riccardo Giacconi to Receive National Medal of Science
		Giacconi, who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2002, will be honored for his pioneering research in X-ray astronomy and for his visionary leadership of major astronomy facilities.
		Giacconi was President of AUI from 1999 to 2004, managing the world-class National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO), an astronomical research facility of the National Science Foundation.
		Giacconi is currently a University Professor at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, and remains a Distinguished Advisor to the Trustees of Associated Universities, Inc.
	www.nrao.edu /pr/2005/rg (588 words)

	The Johns Hopkins Gazette: October 14, 2002
		Giacconi had an appointment to keep with a postdoctoral student in the Bloomberg Center, but he also had an impromptu event to attend: a celebration of the announcement that he was a winner of the 2002 Nobel Prize in physics.
		Giacconi also spoke briefly of the honor and of how glad he is to be a part of the Hopkins faculty and, through his position at Hopkins, to be able to help young people.
		For a large portion of his original term at Hopkins, Giacconi was director of the Space Telescope Science Institute, the NASA center that operates and administers the orbiting Hubble Space Telescope from a facility on the university's Homewood campus.
	www.jhu.edu /~gazette/2002/14oct02/14nobel.html (749 words)

	Johns Hopkins scientists receive presidential medals
		RICCARDO GIACCONI, Ph.D. Co-recipient of the 2002 Nobel Prize in physics, Riccardo Giacconi is considered the father of astronomy research that exploits the X-ray portion of the electromagnetic spectrum.
		Giacconi was born in Genoa, Italy, in 1931, but spent most of his life prior to 1956 in Milan.
		From 1981 to 1992, Giacconi was founding director of the Space Telescope Science Institute, the science headquarters for the Hubble Space Telescope on the Johns Hopkins Homewood campus.
	www.eurekalert.org /pub_releases/2005-02/jhmi-jhs021505.php (1198 words)

	AAVSO: Riccardo Giacconi: A High-Energy Visionary Wins Nobel Prize
		Riccardo Giacconi, the "father of X-ray astronomy," has received the Nobel Prize in physics for "pioneering contributions to astrophysics," which have led to the discovery of cosmic X-ray sources.
		In 1976, Giacconi along with Harvey Tananbaum of the Harvard- Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, Mass., submitted a proposal letter to NASA to initiate the study and design of a large X-ray telescope.
		Giacconi is Principal Investigator for the ultradeep survey with Chandra -- the "Chandra Deep Field South" -- that has already obtained the deepest X-ray exposures to date with a million-second observation.
	www.aavso.org /aavso/membership/giacconi.shtml (576 words)

	HubbleSite - Release Text about "Riccardo Giacconi Awarded NASA's Distinguished Public Service Medal"
		Riccardo Giacconi, former Director of the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI), has been awarded the NASA Distinguished Public Service Medal for his outstanding leadership in development of the STScI.
		Giacconi was appointed by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Inc. (AURA) as the first Director of the STScI in September 1981.
		Giacconi also stressed the importance of a first-rank scientific staff to lead many of the technical developments and respond to the challenges of running the HST observatory.
	hubblesite.org /newscenter/newsdesk/archive/releases/1993/08/text (610 words)

	2002 Nobel Prize for physics to the discoverer of X-ray celestial sources
		Riccardo Giacconi, for "pioneering contribution to astrophysics, which have led to the discovery of cosmic X-ray sources".
		Riccardo Giacconi is one of the founders of X-ray astronomy.
		Riccardo Giacconi and colleagues concluded that the background was of "diffuse character" and due to X-rays of about the same energy as those from ScoX-1.
	xmm.vilspa.esa.es /external/xmm_news/items/nobel/index.shtml?print (878 words)

	MIT physicists had close ties with laureate Giacconi - MIT News Office
		Riccardo Giacconi, a founding father of X-ray astronomy and co-recipient of the 2002 Nobel Prize in physics, had personal connections with many MIT X-ray astronomers in the 1960s and '70s, most notably his mentor, MIT's Bruno Rossi (1905-1993).
		Giacconi worked at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory during the 1970s and was a professor in Harvard's astronomy department and associate director at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA).
		Giacconi's dream of launching a large focusing X-ray telescope to study celestial X-ray sources came to fruition in 1978 with the launch of the Einstein satellite.
	web.mit.edu /newsoffice/2002/giacconi-1023.html (1295 words)

	Associated University, Inc., President Wins Nobel Prize for Physics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Giacconi and his group found that the emission of many X-ray objects varied, leading to the conclusion these sources were compact objects in orbit around other stars.
		Giacconi served as the PI during the conception, design, and fabrication phase of the Einstein Observatory and acted as Director of the Observatory in the sense of being responsible for the setting of observational programs and the running of the Guest Observer Program.
		Giacconi was appointed Director General of the European Southern Observatory (ESO), an intergovernmental organization of eight European nations, in December 1992.
	www.aui.edu /press/2002oct08.html (1762 words)

	Giacconi, Riccardo (1931-)
		Giacconi earned a Ph.D. in cosmic ray physics at the University of Milan before joining American Science and Engineering, a Massachusetts research firm, in 1959 to begin his X-ray work.
		Joining the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in 1973, Giacconi led the construction and successful operation of the powerful X-ray observatory, HEAO-2, also known as Einstein, which made detailed images of X-ray sources.
		Giacconi was the first director of the Space Telescope Science Institute from 1981 to 1993, and he directed the European Southern Observatory for the next six years.
	www.daviddarling.info /encyclopedia/G/Giacconi.html (246 words)

	40th Space Congress Online Press Room
		Riccardo Giacconi is an astronomer with a long history and expertise in deep surveys.
		Giacconi was the principal investigator of the program, which discovered the first X-ray stars and the X-ray background in the 1960s and conceived of and led the implementation of the Uhuru and Einstein X-ray Observatories in the 1970s.
		Giacconi’s work in X-ray astronomy, using rockets as transportation for his X-ray detectors, revealed several cosmic X-ray sources, from neutron stars and stellar fl holes, to quasars.
	www.spacecongress.org /2003/press-speakers-giacconi.htm (354 words)

	Giacconi, Riccardo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Giacconi was born in Genoa on October 6, 1931, and obtained his doctorate from Milan.
		In 1962, a rocket sent up by Giacconi and his group to observe secondary spectral emission from the Moon detected strong X-rays from a source evidently located outside the Solar System.
		Giacconi has also worked with a Cherenkov detector, by means of which it is possible to observe the existence and velocity of high-speed particles.
	www.cartage.org.lb /en/themes/Biographies/MainBiographies/G/Giacconi/1.html (162 words)

	Print News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Riccardo Giacconi, announced today as a co-recipient of this year's Nobel Prize in physics, is a research professor in the Physics and Astronomy Department of the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences at the Johns Hopkins University.
		From 1982 to 1997, Giacconi was a Johns Hopkins professor of astrophysics.
		Giacconi currently collaborates with Colin Norman, a professor of astronomy at Johns Hopkins.
	www.mdspacegrant.org /news/printnews.cgi?newsid1034104604,99483, (464 words)

	Online NewsHour: Nobel Prize -- October 8, 2002 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		One of them, Riccardo Giacconi, is known as the father of x-ray astronomy.
		RICCARDO GIACCONI: Yes, even though it was very early in the morning.
		RICCARDO GIACCONI: Well, we had a, I think, a vision of evolution of stars as being a very, very slow process, which occurred with great majesty over very, very long times.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/science/july-dec02/nobel_10-8.html.old (964 words)

	Earth & Sky : Radio Shows (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Riccardo Giacconi is an astronomer at Johns Hopkins University and recipient of the 2002 Nobel Prize in Physics.
		Riccardo Giacconi: Chandra is so sensitive, and it has so low background, that over ten days, we can actually measure the sources in the sky that are very, very faint.
		Riccardo Giacconi: One of the amazing results is that we thought that fl holes, particularly supermassive fl holes, would be formed later in the universe.
	www.earthsky.org /shows/show.php?date=20050420 (1648 words)

	MIT World » : Progress in the Study of the X-Ray Background
		In 1962, a team of researchers led by Riccardo Giacconi detected the first extrasolar X-ray source, and in 2002, Giacconi was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics (with Raymond Davis, Jr.
		Giacconi received his Ph.D. from the University of Milan in 1954, and went on to postdoctoral work at Indiana and Princeton Universities.
		Giacconi became Associate Director of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics High Energy Astrophysics Division in 1973.
	mitworld.mit.edu /video/197 (383 words)

	Riccardo Giacconi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In 1966, Giacconi was awarded the Helen B. Warner Prize for Astronomy by the American Astronomical Society.
		In 1981 he won the Bruce Medal and the Henry Norris Russell Lectureship, and in 1982 he won the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society.
		The asteroid 3371 Giacconi is named after him.
	www.amazonreviews.com /book/r/ri/riccardo_giacconi.html (148 words)

	The Bruce Medalists: Riccardo Giacconi
		Born in Italy, Riccardo Giacconi earned his Ph.D. in cosmic ray physics at the University of Milan and then spent brief postdoctoral periods at Indiana and Princeton Universities.
		Giacconi has continued to work on the X-ray background radation for many years using a number of satellite observatories.
		Giacconi has simultaneously held positions as professor of physics and astronomy (1982-97) and research professor (since 1998) at Johns Hopkins University.
	www.phys-astro.sonoma.edu /brucemedalists/giacconi/Giacconi.html (415 words)

	Riccardo Giacconi - TheBestLinks.com - Asteroid, Italy, Nobel Prize, October 6, ...
		Riccardo Giacconi - TheBestLinks.com - Asteroid, Italy, Nobel Prize, October 6,...
		Riccardo Giacconi, Asteroid, Italy, Nobel Prize, October 6, United States, 1931...
		Riccardo Giacconi (born October 6,1931) is an American Nobel Prize-winning astrophysicist.
	www.thebestlinks.com /Riccardo_Giacconi.html (202 words)

	Vol.32, No. 23-- This issue -- onCampus, OSU"s Newspaper for Faculty and Staff
		As the speaker of the annual Alpheus Smith lecture in May, Riccardo Giacconi, designer of the Uhuru X-ray satellite that found the first-ever evidence of a fl hole, told students to take a broad view and be persistent in pursuing their contribution to the fields of physics and astronomy.
		Students who attended an informal chat with Riccardo Giacconi before he gave the Alpheus Smith Lecture, which is sponsored annually by the Department of Physics, were privy to such information.
		The lecture is funded by a gift from the Smith family, and is given yearly to physicists renowned not only for their scientific achievements but also for the ability to communicate their scientific breakthroughs to the general public.
	oncampus.osu.edu /v32n23/thisissue_6.html (710 words)

	Researcher wins Nobel Prize for work in X-ray astronomy
		Riccardo Giacconi worked at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics from 1973 to 1981.
		In 1976, Giacconi and Harvey Tananbaum from the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO) submitted a proposal letter to NASA to initiate the study and design of a large X-ray telescope.
		For his contributions to the field of X-ray astronomy, Giacconi was a co-winner of the 2002 Nobel Prize in Physics.
	www.researchmatters.harvard.edu /story.php?article_id=534 (232 words)

	Spotlight: Universal views
		Half of the prize money was shared between Raymond Davis Jr of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA, and Masatoshi Koshiba of the University of Tokyo, Japan, for their research which plumbed the depths of the earth to detect neutrinos from space.
		The other half went to Riccardo Giacconi, President of Associated Universities, in Washington DC, USA, who created a new astronomical window of opportunity transparent to X-rays.
		Giacconi constructed such an instrument in the 1960s and detected the first source of X-rays outside our Solar system.
	www.psigate.ac.uk /spotlight/issue7/views.html (438 words)

	OSU Physics: News
		Riccardo Giacconi to speak at Annual Smith Lecture
		The public is invited to hear Professor Riccardo Giacconi, 2002 Nobel prizewinner in physics, at the Annual Smith Lecture in the Department of Physics on May 8, 2003, at 8:00 p.m.
		Professor Giacconi serves as President of Associated Universities, Inc. (AUI), headquartered in Washington, D.C., which operates the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO).
	www.physics.ohio-state.edu /news/news.php3?id=70&showyear=2003 (163 words)

	Nobel Prize rewards neutrino astrophysics and X-ray astronomy (October 2002) - News - PhysicsWeb
		Riccardo Giacconi receives the other half of the prize for “pioneering contributions to astrophysics, which have led to the discovery of cosmic X-ray sources.”
		Riccardo Giacconi was one of the pioneers of X-ray astronomy.
		Giacconi received his PhD from the University of Milan in Italy and played a key role in the Einstein Observatory in the 1970s.
	physicsweb.org /article/news/6/10/7 (509 words)

	Chandra :: Chronicles :: Riccardo Giacconi: A High-Energy Visionary Wins Nobel Prize :: October 8, 2002
		Giacconi's vision, intellect, and ability to inspire others led directly to the Chandra X-ray Observatory and to the legions of X-ray astronomers who now explore the high-energy universe.
		Justly called "the father of X-ray astronomy," Giacconi and his team discovered the first cosmic X-ray source in 1962, then proposed, designed and directed NASA's Uhuru X-ray satellite which found the first evidence for a fl hole.
		In 1976, Giacconi along with Harvey Tananbaum, now director of the Chandra X-ray Center, submitted a proposal letter to NASA that began the process that led to the development of the Chandra X-ray Observatory.
	chandra.harvard.edu /chronicle/0402/nobel (312 words)

	NSSTC News: New date set for media to see unmanned aircraft
		Giacconi, a research professor at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, will receive the award -- the nation’s highest honor for achievement in science and technology -- during a ceremony March 14 at the White House.
		Giacconi led the science team at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory in Cambridge, Mass., that teamed with Marshall to manage the Chandra mission.
		Giacconi was among the eight National Medal of Science recipients announced in February.
	www.nsstc.org /news/msfc_star_03_02_05.html (423 words)

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