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Google Celebrate Margherita hack Birth Anniversary

Date - 114th Jun 2021

On June 12, 2021, Google Doodle honored Italian astrophysicist and scientific researcher Margarita Hack with an animated image of her 99th birthday. The doodle depicts: "Hack is sitting on a chair and looking through a telescope."

About Margherita hack

Margarita Jacques was an Italian astrophysicist and scientific distributor, she discovered the asteroid 8558.  She was born on June 12, 1922 in Florence. From 1964 to 1992 she was Professor of Astronomy at the University of Trieste. She was the first Italian to run the Astronomical Observatory of Trieste. She has worked at many American and European observatories and has been a member of the working groups of the European Space Agency (ESA) as well as NASA. She died in 2013 when she was  91.

Awards

Margarita Jacques was awarded the Targa Giuseppe Piazzi Prize in 1994 for her scientific research. She also received the Cortina Ulysse Award for Scientific Diffusion in 1995. She was awarded the title Dama di Gran Croce, the highest honor given by the Italian government.

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