Nicolò D'Amico (1953-2020), also known as Nichi D’Amico, was an astronomer and President of
Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica.
Personal life
He was born on 28 June 1953 in
Palermo
Palermo ( , ; scn, Palermu , locally also or ) is a city in southern Italy, the capital (political), capital of both the autonomous area, autonomous region of Sicily and the Metropolitan City of Palermo, the city's surrounding metropolitan ...
. He was married and had a daughter.
He died on 15 September 2020 in
Cagliari
Cagliari (, also , , ; sc, Casteddu ; lat, Caralis) is an Italian municipality and the capital of the island of Sardinia, an autonomous region of Italy. Cagliari's Sardinian name ''Casteddu'' means ''castle''. It has about 155,000 inhabitant ...
.
Career
He was a professor of astrophysics at the
University of Cagliari, and the director of the
Cagliari Observatory and the
Sardinia Radio Telescope.
He was the president of
Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica since 16 October 2015, with a second 4-year term confirmed on 30 December 2019.
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20th-century Italian astronomers
1953 births
2020 deaths
Scientists from Palermo
Academic staff of the University of Cagliari
Italian astrophysicists
21st-century Italian astronomers