Giovanni Fazio
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- BS (Physics) and BA (Chemistry) degrees from St. Mary's University, Texas, in 1954
- Ph.D. (Physics) from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1959
Giovanni G. Fazio | |
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| Born | 1933 or 1934 San Antonio, Texas, U.S. |
| Died | (aged 92) |
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| Alma mater | St. Mary's University, Texas |
| Known for | infrared instruments, including the Infrared Array Camera (IRAC) aboard the Spitzer Space Telescope |
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| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Astronomy, astrophysics |
| Institutions | Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian |
| Website | www |
Giovanni Fazio (1933 or 1934 – February 12, 2026) was an American physicist at Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian.[3] He was an astrophysicist who has initiated and participated in multiple observation programs.
In 1962 he joined the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory and the Harvard College Observatory. There he started a program in gamma-ray astronomy using balloon-borne and ground-based detectors,[4] and the construction of the 10-meter optical reflector at the F. L. Whipple Observatory, Arizona, for the search of ultra-high-energy cosmic gamma-rays.
In 1984 Fazio was selected as Principal Investigator for the Infrared Array Camera (IRAC) experiment on the Spitzer Space Telescope (NASA). The telescope was launched in August 2003, and has since produced multiple discoveries and images of the infrared universe.
Fazio was the editor-in-chief of Journal of Astronomical Instrumentation. He was also the main editor of The Encyclopedia of Cosmology.[5]
