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]

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↑ "Onde gravitazionali: è morto il padre di Virgo, Adalberto Giazotto". Il Tirreno (in Italian). 16 November 2017. Archived from the original on 8 March 2018. Retrieved 20 November 2017.
↑ Bencivelli, Silvia (16 November 2017). "Onde gravitazionali: è morto il padre di Virgo, Adalberto Giazotto". Repubblica (in Italian). Retrieved 20 November 2017.

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[1] "Onde gravitazionali: è morto il padre di Virgo, Adalberto Giazotto". Il Tirreno (in Italian). 16 November 2017. Archived from the original on 8 March 2018. Retrieved 20 November 2017.

[2] Bencivelli, Silvia (16 November 2017). "Onde gravitazionali: è morto il padre di Virgo, Adalberto Giazotto". Repubblica (in Italian). Retrieved 20 November 2017.

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