What is Adalberto Giazotto?
[[File:AdalbertoGiazotto2016.JPG|thumb|Giazotto in 2016]] '''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.<ref>{{cite news|title=Onde gravitazionali: è morto il padre di Virgo, Adalberto Giazotto|url=http://iltirreno.gelocal.it/pontedera/cronaca/2017/11/16/news/onde-gravitazionali-e-morto-il-fisico-adalberto-giazotto-1.16125979|access-date=20 November 2017|work=Il Tirreno|date=16 November 2017|language=it|archive-date=8 March 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180308040343/http://iltirreno.gelocal.it/pontedera/cronaca/2017/11/16/news/onde-gravitazionali-e-morto-il-fisico-adalberto-giazotto-1.16125979|url-status=dead}}</ref> Giazotto won the [[Tomassoni awards|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.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Bencivelli|first1=Silvia|title=Onde gravitazionali: è morto il padre di Virgo, Adalberto Giazotto|url=http://www.repubblica.it/scienze/2017/11/16/news/giansotto-181265272/|access-date=20 November 2017|work=Repubblica|date=16 November 2017|language=it}}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} {{authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Giazotto, Adalberto}} [[Category:1940 births]] [[Category:2017 deaths]] [[Category:Deaths from myocardial infarction]] [[Category:Italian physicists]] {{bio-stub}}