Giovanni Bignami

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Giovanni Bignami
Giovanni Bignami at the 2011 Festival della Scienza in Genoa.
Born	(1944-10-04)4 October 1944
Died	24 May 2017(2017-05-24) (aged 72) Madrid, Spain
Nationality	Italian
Alma mater	University of Milan

Giovanni Fabrizio Bignami (10 April 1944 – 24 May 2017)^[1][2] was an Italian physicist. From March 2007 until August 2008, he was Chairman of the Italian Space Agency. Between 2010 and 2014, he was the first Italian to chair the Committee on Space Research (COSPAR), and from 2011 until 2015, he was President of INAF. He was also the chairman of the SKA project.^[3] He was married to fellow Italian astrophysicist Patrizia A. Caraveo.^[4]