Mario Livio
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1945 –
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Who is Mario Livio?
Mario Livio is an astrophysicist and an author of works that popularize science and mathematics. He is currently an astrophysicist at the Space Telescope Science Institute, which operates the Hubble Space Telescope. He is perhaps best known for his book on the irrational number phi: The Golden Ratio: The Story of Phi, the World's Most Astonishing Number. The book won the Peano Prize and the International Pythagoras Prize for popular books on mathematics.
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- Born
- 1945
Romania - Ethnicity
- Jewish people
- Nationality
- Israel
- Profession
- Education
- Weizmann Institute of Science
- Hebrew University of Jerusalem
- Tel Aviv University
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on July 23, 2013
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