New : sens
A windows (pop-into) of information (full-content of Sensagent) triggered by double-clicking any word on your webpage. Give contextual explanation and translation from your sites !
BoggleMargherita Hack
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
| Margherita Hack | |
|---|---|
Margherita Hack in 2007 | |
| Born | June 12, 1922 Florence, Italy |
| Residence | Italy |
| Nationality | Italian |
| Fields | Astrophysicist Popular Science Writer |
| Institutions | University of Trieste |
| Alma mater | University of Trieste |
| Notable awards | Targa Giuseppe Piazzi (1994) Premio Internazionale Cortina Ulisse (1995) |
| Signature | |
Margherita Hack (born June 12, 1922) is an Italian astrophysicist and popular science writer. The asteroid 8558 Hack, discovered in 1995, was named in her honor.
Biography
Born in Florence, she received her laurea in Physics from the Arcetri Observatory, in 1945, with a thesis in Astrophysics on Cepheid variables. She was Professor ordinarius of Astronomy from 1964 to 1997 at the University of Trieste; she retired in 1998.
She administered the Trieste Astronomical Observatory from 1964 to 1987, making it become internationally well known.
She is a member of several Physics and Astronomy associations[1], and was director of the Astronomy Department at the University of Trieste from 1985 to 1991 and from 1994 to 1997. She is a member of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei[2]
Notes
- ^ International Astronomical Union, European Physical Society, Italian Astronomical Society, Italian Society of Physics
- ^ "Socio nazionale nella classe di scienze fisiche matematiche e naturali. Categoria seconda: astronomia, geodesia, geofisica e applicazioni; sezione A: Astronomia e applicazioni". Margherita Hack's profile on www.lincei.it
