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Margherita Hack
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Italian astrophysicist and popular science writer (1922-2013)
OverviewAI-generated
Margherita Hack was an Italian astrophysicist, astronomer, and non-fiction writer. Born in Florence in 1922, she was educated at the University of Florence. Her professional career included work in Russia and Trieste, where she was employed by the Astronomical Observatory of Trieste and the University of Trieste. She held citizenship in Italy and the Kingdom of Italy.
Hack’s written works include *Le système solaire*, *Vi racconto l'astronomia*, *Libera scienza in libero Stato*, *Modern astrophysics*, and *El universo*. She received the Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic. An atheist and vegetarian, she spoke Italian. She died of heart failure in Trieste in 2013 and was buried there.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1922
- Died
- 2013
- Works
- 25
Top works
- Le système solaire
- Vi racconto l'astronomia
- Libera scienza in libero Stato
- Modern astrophysics
- El universo
via Open Library + Wikidata
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 11
- Total plays
- 39
<a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Margherita+Hack">Read more on Last.fm</a>
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Positional cloning of the mouse obese gene and its human homologue
· 1994 · cited 10,100x
- Molecular mechanisms of cell death: recommendations of the Nomenclature Committee on Cell Death 2018
· 2018 · cited 5,862x
- Opinion Paper: “So what if ChatGPT wrote it?” Multidisciplinary perspectives on opportunities, challenges and implications of generative conversational AI for research, practice and policy
· 2023 · cited 3,466x
- Weight-Reducing Effects of the Plasma Protein Encoded by the
<i>obese</i>
Gene
· 1995 · cited 3,404x
- Single-cell reconstruction of the early maternal–fetal interface in humans
· 2018 · cited 2,171x
via Crossref · CC0
Quotes
- “I think you can understand time just by the fact that everything, everything changes. Everything ages. You’re born, you die. The living beings as the objects if they are new, then they become old. Even the stones, even in our Earth, aged four and a half billion years, has changed enormously. So we can define time only thanks to the fact that everything changes.”
- “I’m an atheist in the sense that I do not believe in God, I do not believe in the afterlife. I believe that the soul is our brain. It’s impossible to scientifically prove either that God exists, or that God does not exist. The idea of God does not convince me. I prefer to believe that there is matter and that matter has the properties we observe. … When I pass away, if I meet God, I will tell him I was wrong.”
via Wikiquote · CC BY-SA
Key facts
- Born
- ( 1922-06-12 ) 12 June 1922, Florence , Tuscany, Kingdom of Italy
- Died
- 29 June 2013 (2013-06-29) (aged 91), Trieste , Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy
- Resting place
- Cemetery of Sant'Anna, Trieste
- Alma mater
- University of Florence
- Spouse
- Aldo De Rosa ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1944 )
- Awards
- Targa Giuseppe Piazzi (1994), Premio Internazionale Cortina Ulisse (1995)
- Fields
- Astrophysics , Popular science
- Institutions
- University of Trieste
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Margherita Hack ( Italian: [marɡeˈriːta ˈak]; 12 June 1922 – 29 June 2013) was an Italian astrophysicist and science communicator. The asteroid 8558 Hack, discovered in 1995, was named in her honour.
Life and career
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Margherita Hack” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.