Papers, etc.

Some papers are at the Smithsonian Institution Archives. Oral history interviews are at the AIP Center for History of Physics, the National Air and Space Museum, and the Hubble Space Telescope Oral History [reviewed in Mercury 3, 91 (1987)]. Giacconi was also interviewed by Kip Thorne in 1983.

Other References: Historical

Aschenbach, Bernd, Hermann M. Hahn, & Joachim Trümper, “The History of X-ray Astronomy,” in The Invisible Sky: ROSAT and the Age of X-ray Astronomy (Copernicus, an imprint of Springer-Verlag, NY, 1998), p. 17-35.

Calzetti, Daniela, Mario Livio, & Piero Madau, eds., Extragalactic Background Radiation: A Meeting in Honor of Riccardo Giacconi Proceedings of the Space Telescope Science Institute Symposium, held in Baltimore, Maryland May 18--20, 1993 (Cambridge University Press, 1993).

Chaisson, Eric J., The Hubble Wars: Astrophysics Meets Astropolitics in the Two-Billion-Dollar Struggle over the Hubble Space Telescope (HarperCollins, NY, 1994).

Chandra X-Ray Observatory, “History of X-Ray Astronomy”
http://xrtpub.harvard.edu/xray_astro/history.html

Giacconi, Riccardo, “Progress in X-Ray Astronomy,” Physics Today, May 1973.

Giacconi, Riccardo, “The Einstein X-ray Observatory,” Scientific American 242, 80 (1980).

Giacconi, Riccardo, “Personal recollections on the origins of the Einstein Observatory,” in Imaging X-ray Astronomy: A Decade of Einstein Observatory Achievements, ed. by Martin Elvis (Cambridge Univ. Press, 1990), p. 3-12.

Giacconi, Riccardo, “Achievements and Prospects for X-ray Astronomy,” Astronomische Nachrichten 319, 1/2 , 147-50 (1998).

Gursky, H., R. Ruffini, & L. Stella, Exploring the Universe: A Festschrift in Honor of Ricardo Giacconi (World Scientific, Singapore, 2000).

Gursky, Herbert, “Technology and the Emergence of X-ray Astronomy: Presented at the American Physical Society, Centennial Meeting, March 1999,” Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage 3, 1, 1-12 (2000).

Hirsch, R.F., “Science, Technology, and Public Policy: The Case of X-Ray Astronomy, 1959 to 1972,” Ph.D. dissertation, U. of Wisconsin, 1979. Available from University Microfilms, Ann Arbor, MI.

Hirsch, Richard, Glimpsing an Invisible Universe: The Emergence of X-ray Astronomy (Cambridge Univ. Press, 1983)

Pounds, Kenneth, “X-ray Astronomy,” in Michette, Alan & Slawka Pfauntsch, eds., X-rays: the First Hundred Years, Wiley, NY, 1996, p. 175-92.

Rossi, Bruno, Moments in the Life of a Scientist (Cambridge, 1990).

Smith, Robert W., The Space Telescope (Cambridge U.P., 1989).

Smith, Robert W.; Hanle, P.A.; Kargon, R.H.; Tatarewicz, J.N.: The Space Telescope. A Study of NASA, Science, Technology, and Politics (Cambridge University Press, 1993).

Thorne, Kip S., Black Holes & Time Warps (W.W. Norton, 1994).

Tucker, Wallace & Riccardo Giacconi, The X-Ray Universe (Harvard Univ. Press, 1985).

Tucker, Wallace & Karen, The Cosmic Inquirers (Harvard Univ. Press, 1986).

“Proceedings of the Uhuru Memorial Symposium: The Past, Present, and Future of X-Ray Astronomy,” Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences 71, no. 1 (1981).

Search ADS for works about Giacconi

Other References:Scientific

Giacconi, R., G.W. Clark, & B. Rossi, “A Brief Review of Experimental and Theoretical Progress in X-Ray Astronomy,” Technical Note of American Science and Engineering, ASE-TN-49, Jan. 15, 1960.

Giacconi, Riccardo & Bruno Rossi, “A ‘Telescope’ for Soft X-Ray Astronomy,” J. Geophys. Res. 65, 773 (1960).

Giacconi, R., H. Gursky, & J.R. Waters, “Two Sources of Cosmic X-rays in Scorpius and Sagittarius,” Nature 204, 981-82 (1964).

Clark, G., G. Garmire, M. Oda, M. Wada, R. Giacconi, H. Gursky, & J. Waters, “Positions of Three Cosmic X-Ray Sources in Scorpio and Sagittarius,” Nature 207, 584-87 (1965).

Giacconi, R. & H. Gursky, “Observation of X-Ray Sources Outside the Solar System,” Space Science Reviews 4, 151 (1965).

Giacconi, Riccardo, Herbert Gursky, Frank R. Paolini, & Bruno B. Rossi, “Evidence for X-Rays from Sources Outside the Solar System,” Phys. Rev. Letters 9, 439 (1962).

Gursky, H., et al, “A Measurement of the Angular Size of the X-Ray Source SCO X-1,” Ap.J. 144 1249 (1966) [erratum].

Sandage, A., et al, “On the Optical Identification of SCO X-1,” Ap.J. 146, 316 (1966).

Oda, M., H. Bradt, H., G. Garmire, G. Spada, G., B.V. Sreekantan, H. Gursky, R. Giacconi, , P. Gorenstein, & J.R. Waters,“The Size and Position of the X-Ray Source in the Crab Nebula,” Ap.J. 148, L5-L11 (1967).

Gursky, H., P. Gorenstein, & R. Giacconi, “The Distribution of Galactic X-Ray Sources from Scorpio to Cygnus,” Ap.J. 150L, 75 (1967).

Giacconi, R., H. Gursky, & L.P. van Speybroeck, “Observational Techniques in X-Ray Astronomy,” Ann. Reviews of Astronomy & Astrophysics 6, 373 (1968).

Giacconi, R., et al, “An X-Ray Scan of the Galactic Plane from UHURU,” Ap.J. 165, 27 (1971).

Schreier, E., R. Levinson, H. Gursky, E. Kellogg, H. Tananbaum, & R. Giacconi, “Evidence for the Binary Nature of Centaurus X-3 from UHURU X-Ray Observations,” Ap.J. 172, L79-89 (1972). [reprinted in the centennial edition Ap.J. 525C, 1201 (1999) with a modern commentary by Harvey Tananbaum]

Giacconi, R., et al, “The UHURU catalog of X-ray souces,” Ap.J. 178, 281 (1972).

Giacconi, R. & H. Gursky, eds., X-Ray Astronomy (Reidel, Dordrecht, Holland, 1974).

Giacconi, R., et al, “The Third UHURU Catalog of X-Ray Sources,” Ap.J. Supp. 27, 37 (1974).

Giacconi, R. & R. Ruffini, eds., Physics and Astrophysics of Neutron Stars and Black Holes (North-Holland, Amsterdam & NY, 1978).

Murray, S.S., W. Forman, C. Jones, & R. Giacconi, “Evidence for X-ray Emission from Superclusters of Galaxies Determined from UHURU,” Ap.J. 219, L89-L93 (1978).

Tananbaum, H. G. Peters, W. Forman, R. Ciacconi, & C. Jones, “UHURU Observations of X-ray Emission from Seyfert Galaxies” Ap.J. 223, 74-81 (1978).

Forman, W., C. Jones, S. Murray, & R. Giacconi, “The Detection of Large X-ray Halos in Clusters,” Ap.J. 225, L1-L4 (1978).

Forman, W., C. Jones, L. Cominsky, P. Julien, S Murray, G. Peters, H. Tananbaum, & R. Giacconi,“The Fourth UHURU Catalog of X-ray Sources,” Ap.J. Supp. 38, 357-412 (1978).

Giacconi, R., et al, “The Einstein (HEAO 2) X-Ray Observatory,” Ap.J. 230, 540-50 (1979).

Giacconi, R., et al, “A High-Sensitivity X-ray Survey Using the Einstein Observatory and the Discrete Source Contribution to the Extragalactic X-ray Background,” Ap.J. 234, 1 (1979).

Giacconi, Riccardo, “The Role of ESO in European Astronomy,” ESO Messenger, no. 91, 1-8 (1998).

Cavaliere, A., R. Giacconi, & N. Menci, “X-Raying the Star Formation History of the Universe,” Ap.J. 528L, 77 (2000). [abstract]

Giacconi, R., et al, “A Deep X-ray and Optical Survey of the Chandra Deep Field South,” Memorie della Società Astronomica Italiana 72, 831-40 (2001).

Giacconi, R., et al, “First Results from the X-Ray and Optical Survey of the Chandra Deep Field South,” Ap.J. 551, 624-34 (2001) [abstract].

Giacconi, Riccardo, et al, “Chandra Deep Field South: The 1 Ms Catalog,” Ap. J. Supp. 139, 369 (2002).

Lehmer, B.D., et al, “The Extended Chandra Deep Field-South Survey: Chandra Point-Source Catalogs, ” Ap.J. Supp. 161, 21-40 (2005).

Search ADS for works by Giacconi

Other Works: Popularizations, etc.

Giacconi, Riccardo, “Progress in X-Ray Astronomy,” Am. J. Phys. 44, 121 (1976) [1975 Richtmyer Memorial Lecture].

Giacconi, Riccardo, “The Dawn of X-Ray Astronomy” [Nobel lecture], Nobel Foundation website [also in Rev. Mod. Phys. 75, 995-1010 (2003)].