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...REUTERS Winners of the Nobel Prize in Physics (from left): Dr. Riccardo Giacconi, Raymond Davis and Masatoshi Koshiba...
...visible light. But stars and galaxies shine with all sorts of other radiation as well. For their work in probing these otherwise invisible signals from space Raymond Davis, 87 of the University of Pennsylvania; Masatoshi Koshiba, 76, of the University of Tokyo; and the Italian-born U.S. citizen Riccardo Giacconi, 71, of Associated Universities Inc. in Washington, D.C, each got a share of the Nobel prize in Physics announced in Stockholm Tuesday...
...Koshiba and Davis split half the Nobel for their neutrino work; Giacconi, meanwhile, gets the other half of the approximately $1 million prize. His achievement: building a series of X-ray telescopes that have laid bare the secrets of such exotic heavenly objects as quasars, black holes and super-dense neutron stars. And like Koshiba and Davis, he has helped to rectify humanity?s cosmic myopia...
...Government's Hubble budget alone will amount to an annual injection of more than $150 million into the scientific community. No wonder that researchers were awaiting the launch with both excitement and apprehension. "A lot is riding on that pillar of fire," observed institute director Riccardo Giacconi...
...Giacconi became a member of the Harvard faculty and was appointed associate director of the High Energy Astrophysics division of the Center for Astrophysics, where he was principal investigator for the Einstein Observatory, a sophisticated x-ray satellite which was successfully launched...