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pronunciation:
[jiakohnee]
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| Astrophysicist, born in Genoa, Italy. He studied and taught at the University of Milan (PhD 1954), then joined Indiana University as a Fulbright Fellow in 1956. He went on to teach at Harvard (1973–82) and Johns Hopkins University (1982), and directed the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore (1981), specializing in X-ray astronomy. He shared the 2002 Nobel Prize for Physics for pioneering contributions to astrophysics, which have led to the discovery of cosmic X-ray sources. |
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