In this way, Riccardo Giacconi has led the development of X-ray astronomy. This has increased our understanding of individual remarkable objects, as well as ...

This unique book aims at describing the Nobel prize winning works in astronomy to readers who only have a background of high school physics.

There is no Nobel Prize in astronomy, and perhaps for this reason, historians of science have rarely examined the astronomical sciences from the perspective of ...

This year's Nobel Prize in Physics is concerned with the discoveries and detection of cosmic particles and radiation.

NOBEL LAUREATES IN ASTROPHYSICS · 1936: Hess, Victor Franz, Austria, Innsbruck University · 1967: Bethe, Hans Albrecht, U.S.A., Cornell University, Ithaca, NY

It is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the 1895 will of Alfred Nobel (who died in 1896), awarded for outstanding contributions in physics.

The 2002 Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to three physicists who have made pioneering contributions to astrophysics. Raymond Davis, Jr., a professor of ...

The Nobel Prize was awarded to Ghez and Genzel for their discovery of a supermassive compact object, now generally recognized to be a black hole, in the Milky ... Early life · Career · Awards · Selected publications

Adam Riess, an astronomer at the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) and Krieger-Eisenhower Professor in Physics and Astronomy at The Johns Hopkins ...

This unique book aims at describing the Nobel prize winning works in astronomy to readers who only have a background of high school physics.