Adalberto Giazotto
Adalberto Giazotto (1 February 1940 – 16 November 2017) was an Italian physicist. He was born in Genoa, Italy. He helped design the Virgo interferometer, which first detected gravitational waves in 2017.[1]
Giazotto won the Caterina Tomassoni e Felice Pietro Chisesi Prize, a Matteucci Medal, and shared the Enrico Fermi Prize with Barry Barish in 2016.
Giazotto died in Rome, Italy of a heart attack on 16 November 2017 at the age of 77.[2]
References
- ↑ "Onde gravitazionali: è morto il padre di Virgo, Adalberto Giazotto" (in it). Il Tirreno. 16 November 2017. http://iltirreno.gelocal.it/pontedera/cronaca/2017/11/16/news/onde-gravitazionali-e-morto-il-fisico-adalberto-giazotto-1.16125979. Retrieved 20 November 2017.
- ↑ Bencivelli, Silvia (16 November 2017). "Onde gravitazionali: è morto il padre di Virgo, Adalberto Giazotto" (in it). Repubblica. http://www.repubblica.it/scienze/2017/11/16/news/giansotto-181265272/. Retrieved 20 November 2017.