Margherita Hack was a famous astrophysicist and science communicator born in Florence in 1922 and passed away in Trieste in 2013. During her career, she taught astronomy at the University of Trieste from 1964 to 1992 and directed the university’s astronomy department. Her international fame led her to collaborate with major space agencies such as ESA and NASA for global scientific research.
Margherita Hack was also very active in making science accessible to everyone, and in 1978, she founded the magazine L’astronomia. Regarding life in space, she believed in the existence of other civilizations but remained skeptical about the possibility of actual contact due to the vast distances between stars.
For her dedication, she received prestigious awards such as the Gold Medal for Science and the title of Knight Grand Cross. Even today, she is remembered as one of the most brilliant minds in Italian and international science.
