{"id":549,"date":"2025-10-18T14:46:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T12:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/curiosandofirenze.it\/en\/?p=549"},"modified":"2026-02-23T16:36:46","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T15:36:46","slug":"margherita-hack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/curiosandofirenze.it\/en\/margherita-hack\/","title":{"rendered":"Margherita Hack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-path-to-node=\"2\">Margherita Hack was a famous astrophysicist and science communicator <strong>born in Florence<\/strong> 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&#8217;s astronomy department. 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