Giuseppe Cocconi
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Giuseppe Cocconi was an Italian physicist best known for co-authoring one of the first scientific proposals for the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI), helping to launch the modern era of SETI research.
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| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Italian physicist
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human → physicist → |
| authorOf | Searching for Interstellar Communications → |
| citizenship | Italian → |
| coAuthor | Philip Morrison → |
| countryOfCitizenship | Italy → |
| educatedAt | University of Milan → |
| employer | CERN → |
| fieldOfWork |
astrophysics
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cosmic ray physics → particle physics → physics → search for extraterrestrial intelligence → |
| gender | male → |
| hasFamilyName | Cocconi → |
| hasGivenName | Giuseppe → |
| influenced | modern SETI research → |
| knownFor |
co-authoring one of the first scientific proposals for SETI
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helping to launch the modern era of SETI research → |
| languageOfWorkOrName | Italian → |
| memberOf | CERN scientific staff → |
| movement | SETI → |
| notableIdea | use of 21-centimeter hydrogen line for interstellar communication → |
| notableWork | Searching for Interstellar Communications → |
| occupation | physicist → |
| proposed | radio search for extraterrestrial civilizations near 21 cm hydrogen line → |
| publicationYear | 1959 → |
| publishedIn | Nature → |
| workLocation |
CERN
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Geneva → |
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