Margherita Hack
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Margherita Hack in 2006
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| Born |
12 June 1922 Florence, Tuscany, Italy |
| Died | 29 June 2013 (aged 91) Trieste, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy |
| Residence | Italy |
| Nationality | Italian |
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Astrophysicist Popular Science Writer |
| Institutions | University of Trieste |
| Alma mater | University of Florence |
| Notable awards |
Targa Giuseppe Piazzi (1994) Premio Internazionale Cortina Ulisse (1995) |
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Margherita Hack, Knight Grand Cross OMRI (Italian: [marɡeˈriːta ˈ(h)akk]; 12 June 1922 – 29 June 2013) was an Italian astrophysicist and popular science writer. The asteroid 8558 Hack, discovered in 1995, was named in her honour.
Born in Florence, her father was Roberto Hack, a bookkeeper of Swiss origin and Protestant religion. Her mother, Maria Luisa Poggesi, from Tuscany, was of Catholic religion, graduate at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Firenze and miniaturist at the Uffizi Gallery.
Both parents had left their religion of provenance to join the Italian Theosophical Society, for which Roberto Hack was secretary for a certain period under the chairmanship of the countess Gamberini-Cavallini.
Margherita Hack, after attending (without taking exams because of the outbreak of World War II) the Liceo Classico "Galileo Galilei" in Florence, graduated in physics from the University of Florence in 1945 with test score of 101/110, with a thesis in astrophysics on Cepheid variables, after studies made in the Arcetri Observatory at those times under the direction of Giorgio Abetti, that was for her a model of scientist, teacher and scientific research centre administrator.
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