Riccardo Giacconi
Curriculum Vitae
| Education | |
| University of Milan Milan, Italy |
Doctorate in Physics, 1954 |
| Professional experience | |
| Assistant Professor of Physics University of Milan Milan, Italy |
1954-1956 |
| Research Associate (Fulbright Fellow) Indiana University Bloomington, Indiana |
1956-1958 |
| Research Associate, Cosmic Ray Laboratory Princeton University Princeton, New Jersey |
1958-1959 |
| American Science & Engineering, Inc. Cambridge, Massachusetts Senior Scientist Member of the Board of Directors (1966-1973) Executive Vice President (1969-1973) |
1959-1973 |
| Associate Director High Energy Astrophysics Division Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Cambridge, Massachusetts |
1973-1981 |
| Professor of Astronomy Harvard University Cambridge, Massachusetts |
1973-1982 |
| Principal Investigator on several NASA programs, including SAS-A (UHURU) SO-54 (SKYLAB) HEAO-2 (“Einstein”) AXAF Interdisciplinary Scientist (Chandra) |
1960-1981
1986- |
| Director Space Telescope Science Institute Baltimore, Maryland |
1981-1992 |
| Professor of Astronomy The Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, Maryland |
1981-1999 |
| Chairman of the Board Instituto Donegani Italy |
1987-1988 |
| Professor of Physics and Astronomy University of Milan Milan, Italy |
1991-1999 |
| Director General European Southern Observatory Germany |
1993-1999 |
| President Associated Universities, Inc. Washington, DC |
1999- |
| Research Professor The Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, Maryland |
1999- |
| Honors | |
| Fulbright Fellow, 1956-1958 | |
| Helen B. Warner Award of the American Astronomical Society, 1966 | |
| Como Prize of the Italian Physical Society, 1967 | |
| Röntgen Prize in Astrophysics for 1971 of the Physikalisch-Medizinische Gesellschaft, Würzburg, Germany, 1971 | |
| NASA Medal for Exceptional Scientific Achievement, 1971 | |
| NASA Distinguished Public Service Award, 1972 | |
| NASA Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal, 1980 | |
| Elliott Cresson Medal of the Franklin Institute, Philadelphia, 1980 | |
| Catherine Wolfe Bruce Gold Medal of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 1981 | |
| Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics, AAS/AIP, 1981 | |
| Henry Norris Russell Lecturer of the American Astronomical Society for 1981 | |
| Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society, 1982 | |
| The A. Cressy Morrison Award in Natural Sciences, The New York Academy of Sciences, 1982 | |
| Wolf Prize in Physics, 1987 | |
| Nobel Prize in Physics, 2002 | |
| Honorary degrees | |
| Honorary Doctor of Science, The University of Chicago, 1983 | |
| Laurea Honoris Causa in Astronomia, The University of Padua, 1984 | |
| Honorary Doctor of Science, University of Warsaw, 1996 | |
| Laurea Honoris Causa in Physics, University of Rome, 1998 | |
| Honorary Doctor of Technology and Science, University of Uppsala, Sweden, 2000 | |
| Academies | |
| American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Fellow | |
| National Academy of Sciences, Member | |
| Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, Foreign Member | |
| The Royal Astronomical Society, Associate | |
| American Philosophical Society, Member | |
| Max-Planck Society, External Member | |
| Memberships | |
| American Astronomical Society | |
| American Association for the Advancement of Science, Fellow | |
| American Physical Society, Fellow | |
| Astronomical Society of the Pacific | |
| Cosmos Club | |
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