Margherita Hack

Also known as Margherita Hack De Rosa

Italian astrophysicist and popular science writer (1922-2013)

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Born: 1922
Died: 2013
Works: 25

Top works

Le système solaire
Vi racconto l'astronomia
Libera scienza in libero Stato
Modern astrophysics
El universo

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Type: Group

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Listeners: 11
Total plays: 39

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5 total works indexed

Positional cloning of the mouse obese gene and its human homologue
· 1994 · cited 10,065x
Molecular mechanisms of cell death: recommendations of the Nomenclature Committee on Cell Death 2018
· 2018 · cited 5,698x
Weight-Reducing Effects of the Plasma Protein Encoded by the <i>obese</i> Gene
· 1995 · cited 3,397x
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 3,146x
Single-cell reconstruction of the early maternal–fetal interface in humans
· 2018 · cited 2,121x

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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.”

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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

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date of birth: 1922-06-12
date of death: 2013-06-29
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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.

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