Biography Riccardo Giacconi
LIFE:
Riccardo Giacconi was born in Gènova in 6th of October in 1931, he still alive, and now, he live in United States. His parents are Canni Giacconi and Antonio Giacconi, and they born in Italy, Riccardo Giacconi was only child in his family. Riccardo Giacconi don’t has any child and any wife, he was felt in love but the romance wasn’t well. His mother was a teacher of maths and physics of the school secundary. She was co-author of a lot of books to geometry, and she thinks God was the creator to the geometry. His father, was a propietary of company and he knew saw the historical evolution and saw when the king hadn’t had the power. He was anti-fascist.
Riccardo Giacconi, since that was a children, he move to the city of Milan, here, he did his universitary studies, he graduated in the year 1954 and he continuos in the university until 1956, because he was a teacher of the university.
TRAJECTORY BUSSINES:
In the year 1973, he got was a teacher of astronomy in the university of Harvard until the year 1982. Between the years 1991 and 1999, he was teacher in Milan. Riccardo Giacconi was interested in the astrophisycs, and his search was directed to detect the cosmics sources to X-ray using radiotelescopies. In the year 2002, he won the Nobel Prize of physics (he share the prize with the doctors Raymod Davis Jr. and Masatoshi Koshiba), and for their importants contributions in astrophisycs, particulary in the discovery of the cosmics sources to X-ray*. Between the years 1993 and 1999, Riccardo Giacconi was the director of European Southern Observatory(ESO), actually Riccardo Giacconi, is an investigator of the observatory to X-rays Chandra(is an observatory spacial), was created for Nasa in 1999.
*The cosmics rays are particles subatomic coming to outer space and have a lot of energy because have very much speed. With this discovery, the scientist chek the electronic conductivity to the terrestrial atmospheres was caused to ionization, caused for the high-energy radiation.
HISTORICAL CONTEXT:
16 years before to the born of Riccardo Giacconi, 1914, was ocurred the World War I.
In 14th of March in 1915, Italy went to the war. In the year 1916, Italy declared the war on Germany. Europe was very afect, the country more afected was Germany.
Benito Mussolini got the power in the year 1922.
In the period interwars (1919-1924), reinforce the regimes authoritarian, for example, nazism in Germany or fascist in Italy. The fascist was a sistem political not much after to finally the Wolrd War I. Benito Mussolini created the “Fasci Italiani di Combattimento”, created to combat to bring against socialist offensive and democracy.
They were concerned because, the left side be done to the power of the government, so the side fascist presented as an alternative to the power. The country was in a big economic crisis and social crisi after to the World War I, and the king asked the training to the government of Benito Mussolini. In the year 1943 the fascist Italy finished and shortly after, 1945, Benito Mussolini died.
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
The information was search in days 8th-13th-14th-15th of April in 2011.
By: Marta and Míriam
