Elena Aprile
- January 5, 2024
- Physicist
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Elena Aprile Biography
| Name | Elena Aprile |
| Birthday | Mar 12 |
| Birth Year | 1954 |
| Place Of Birth | Milan |
| Birth Country | Italy |
| Birth Sign | Pisces |
Elena Aprile is one of the most popular and richest Physicist who was born on March 12, 1954 in Milan, Italy. Elena Aprile (born March 12, 1954 in Milan) is an Italian experimental particle physicist. She has been a professor of physics at Columbia University since 1986. She is the founder and spokesperson of the XENON Dark Matter Experiment. Aprile is well known for her work with noble liquid detectors and for her contributions to particle astrophysics in the search for dark matter.
Since 2001, Aprile’s research focus shifted to particle astrophysics, specifically to direct detection of dark matter with liquid xenon. Aprile is the founder and spokesperson of the XENON dark matter experiment, which aims to discover WIMPs as they scatter off xenon atoms in massive yet ultra-low background liquid xenon detectors operated deep underground.
Elena Aprile Net Worth
| Net Worth | $5 Million |
| Source Of Income | Physicist |
| House | Living in own house. |
Elena Aprile is one of the richest Physicist from Italy. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Elena Aprile 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)
Aprile studied physics at the University of Naples and completed her masters thesis at CERN under the supervision of Professor Carlo Rubbia. After receiving her Laurea degree in 1978, she enrolled at the University of Geneva, from which she received her Ph.D. in physics in 1982. She moved to Harvard University in 1983 as a postdoctoral researcher in Carlo Rubbia’s group. Aprile joined the faculty of Columbia University in 1986, attaining her full professorship in 2001. From 2003 to 2009, Aprile served as co-director of the Columbia Astrophysics Laboratory.
From 1996 to 2001, Aprile was spokesperson of the NASA-sponsored Liquid Xenon Gamma-Ray Imaging Telescope (LXeGRIT) project, leading the first engineering test of the telescope in a near-space environment and subsequent science campaigns with long-duration balloon flights. LXeGRIT used a liquid xenon time projection chamber as a Compton telescope for imaging cosmic sources in the 0.15 to 10 MeV energy band. A total of about 36 hours of data were gathered from two long-duration flights in 1999 and 2000, at an average altitude of 39 km.
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Elena Ranked on the list of most popular Physicist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Italy. Elena Aprile celebrates birthday on March 12 of every year.