Marco Tavani
Marco Tavani (born October 5, 1957 in Rome ) is an Italian astrophysicist.
Tavani obtained a Laureate in theoretical physics from the University of Rome La Sapienza with Marcello Conversi in 1982 and received his PhD in theoretical physics from Columbia University (where he also received a master's degree in 1985) in 1989 with Malvin Ruderman . The dissertation was on the astrophysics of binary star systems with a pulsar. As a post-doctoral student he was at Stanford University and the University of Berkeley, 1989-1991 at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory , 1992-1994 at the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory (Goddard Space Flight Center of NASA) and 1995-1997 again at Columbia University. From 1997 he was at the Institute for Cosmic Physics (CNR) in Milan, from 1999 as Research Director. From 2004 he was Research Director at the Italian National Institute for Astrophysics in Rome (INAF). He also teaches at the Gran Sasso Science Institute in L'Aquila and at the University of Rome Tor Vergata. He has been on the INAF Council since 2015.
He formulated a theory of shock wave-driven synchrotron radiation in gamma-ray bursts .
In 1997 he became chief scientist of the AGILE mission.
In 2017 he received the Matteucci Medal . In 2012 he and the AGILE team received the Bruno Rossi Prize for the discovery of flaring gamma rays in the Crab Nebula. There he proved the existence of a novel mechanism for particle acceleration.
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| SURNAME | Tavani, Marco |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian astrophysicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 5th October 1957 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Rome |