Mario Livio

Mario Livio (born June 19, 1945) is an <a href="/facts/Astrophysics/krFPRWLA">astrophysicist</a> and an author of works that popularize science and mathematics. For 24 years (1991–2015) he was an astrophysicist at the <a href="/facts/Space_Telescope_Science_Institute/kPnzlp8h">Space Telescope Science Institute</a>, which operates the <a href="/facts/Hubble_Space_Telescope/NQeIf0vw">Hubble Space Telescope</a>. He has published more than 400 scientific articles on topics including cosmology, supernova explosions, black holes, extrasolar planets, and the emergence of life in the universe.<a href="https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/search/fq=%7B!type%3Daqp%20v%3D%24fq_database%7D&fq_database=database%3A%20astronomy&p_=0&q=author%3A(%22Livio%2C%20M.%22)&sort=date%20desc%2C%20bibcode%20desc">[1]</a> His book on the <a href="/facts/Irrational_number/Psv19TET">irrational number</a> <a href="/facts/Golden_ratio/anloSRmD">phi</a>, The Golden Ratio: The Story of Phi, the World's Most Astonishing Number (2002), won the Peano Prize and the International Pythagoras Prize for popular books on mathematics.

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Mario Livio