Margherita Hacks father Roberto Hack was born in Florence and is a Florentine accountant from the Swiss Protestant Church. His mother Maria Luisa Poggesi is a Catholic in Tuscany and graduated from the Accademia di Belle Arti di Firenze and the Uffizi Gallery. ) Miniature painter. Both parents gave up their religious beliefs and joined the Italian Theosophical Society, Roberto Hack (Roberto Hack) under the leadership of the Countess Gamberini-Cavallini served as secretary for a period of time.
Huck was an athlete when he was young. He played basketball and raced on the track. During the national college competition known as Littoriali under Mussolinis fascist regime, he won the long jump and high jump.
She married Aldo De Rosa at the San Leonardo church in Arcetri on February 19, 1944; De Rosa was one of his childhood playmates.
Huck participated in the Liceo Classico "Galileo Galilei in Florence, but the outbreak of the Second World War prevented him from taking the exam. In 1945, he obtained a degree in physics from the University of Florence with a score of 101/110.
His astrophysics thesis was on Cepheid variable stars, based on his research at the Arcetri Observatory, and then under the guidance of George Abetti . Huck sees Abetti as a model for scientists, professors, and administrators of scientific research centers.
In Italy, Huck is known for his anti-religious views and continued criticism of the Catholic Church and its hierarchy and institutions.
She is a vegetarian and wrote a book to explain this choice, called Perché sono Vegetarian (why I am a vegetarian); he also wrote about it in bicicletta (my bicycle life) A book called La mia vita. Hack died at the Cattinara Hospital in Trieste at 4:30 am on June 29, 2013. She was hospitalized for a week due to heart problems, and she has suffered for about two years.
She refused to undergo heart surgery.
Hacks husband, Aldo De Rosa, died on September 26, 2014 from complications of Alzheimers disease. They all rest in the Santa Ana Cemetery in Trieste. Hack left her personal library, which contained 24,000 books on astronomy, to the city of Trieste. Scientific activities From 1964 to November 1, 1992, she worked as a senior lecturer in astronomy at the University of Trieste, when Hack was laid off in ancient times.
From 1964 to 1987, she was the first Italian woman to manage the Trieste Observatory,
which made her famous internationally.
As a member of the most prestigious association of physics and astronomy,
Margherita Hack also served as the head of the Department of Astronomy at the University of Trieste from 1985 to 1991 and from 1994 to 1997. She is a member of the National Academy of Sciences dei Lincei (National Member of Mathematical Physics and Natural Sciences; Category 2: Astronomy, Geodesy, Geophysics and Applications; Part A: Astronomy and Applications).
He has worked in many observatories in the United States and Europe, and is a long-term member of ESA and NASA task forces.
In Italy, through intensive promotion work, it has achieved an increase in astronomical activities, connected to multiple satellites, and reached an international level of visibility.
Hack has published many original articles in international magazines, as well as many general and university-level books. In 1994, she won the Targa Giuseppe Piazzi Award for scientific research and the Cortina Ulisse Award for popularization of science in 1995. In 1978, Margarita Hack founded the bimonthly "Astronomy", the first issue was published in November 1979;
Later, he and Corrado Lamberti directed the popular science and astronomy magazine Le Stelle.
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Awards and decorations
 | Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic – awarded on 28 May 2012 |
 | Gold Medal of the Italian Order of Merit for Culture and Art – awarded on 27 May 1998 |
