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Riccardo Giacconi: A High-Energy Visionary Wins Nobel Prize

Riccardo Giacconi

NASA's Uhuru

The Einstein X-ray Observatory

Proposal to NASA

• For an outline of the history of X-ray astronomy, including Giacconi's many contributions, see: http://chandra.harvard.edu/chronicle/0202/40years/index.html
  
  
• For a discussion of the history of X-ray telescopes, see: http://chandra.harvard.edu/xray_astro/history.html
  
  
• For a brief biography and photograph of Giacconi, see: http://chandra.harvard.edu/press/bios/giacconi_bio.html
  
  
• For a description of Giacconi's current research using Chandra, see: http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2001/cdfs/index.html
  http://chandra.harvard.edu/press/01_releases/press_031301.html
  
  
• Chandra Press Room: Nobel Prize In Physics Awarded To Astronomer For NASA-Funded Research
  
  
• Information on the 2002 Nobel prize can be found at: http://nobelprize.org/physics/laureates/2002/index.html
  
  
• Physics Today.org: http://www.physicstoday.org

High-Energy Celebration Members of the Chandra team at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory who had worked or trained with Riccardo Giacconi hold an impromptu gathering to celebrate the Nobel Prize announcement

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