Giovanni Bignami
1944
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2017
photo credits: Wikimedia Commons
country of citizenship: Italy, Kingdom of Italy
languages spoken, written or signed: Italian
educated at: University of Milan
occupation: physicist, astrophysicist
award received: Bruno Rossi Prize, Theodore von Kármán Award
Giovanni Fabrizio Bignami (10 April 1944 – 24 May 2017) was an Italian physicist. From March 2007 until August 2008, he was Chairman of the Italian Space Agency. Between 2010 and 2014, he was the first Italian to chair the Committee on Space Research (COSPAR), and from 2011 until 2015, he was President of INAF. He was also the chairman of the SKA project. He was married to fellow Italian astrophysicist Patrizia A. Caraveo. Source: Wikipedia (en)
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