EIE GROUP - The Italian Physicist Riccardo Giacconi was born on 6th October 1931. Giacconi was awarded a share of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2002 "for pioneering contributions to astrophysics,
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Riccardo Giacconi, Nobel-winner who used X-rays to explore the universe, dies at 87 - The Boston Globe
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