ICRANet
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| Type | International organization |
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| Established | 2005 |
| Director | Remo Ruffini |
| Location | Pescara, Italy |
| Website | http://www.icranet.org |
ICRANet, the International Center for Relativistic Astrophysics Network, is an international organization promoting research activities in relativistic astrophysics and related areas. Its members are four countries and three Universities and Research Centres. The members are the Republic of Armenia, the Federative Republic of Brazil, Italian Republic, the Vatican State, the University of Arizona (USA), Stanford University (USA) and ICRA.
The headquarters is located in Pescara, Italy.
In 1985, ICRA (International Center for Relativistic Astrophysics) was founded by Remo Ruffini (University of Rome "La Sapienza") together with Riccardo Giacconi (Nobel Prize for Physics 2002), Abdus Salam (Nobel Prize for Physics 1979), Paul Boynton (University of Washington), George Coyne (former director of the Vatican observatory), Francis Everitt (Stanford University), Fang Li-Zhi (University of Science and Technology of China).
The Establishment and the Statute of ICRANet were signed on March 19, 2003 and recognized in the same year by the Republic of Armenia and the Vatican State. ICRANet has been created in 2005 by a law of the Italian Government, ratified by the Italian Parliament and signed by the President of the Italian Republic Carlo Azeglio Ciampi on February 10, 2005. The Republic of Armenia, Italy, the Vatican State, ICRA, the University of Arizona and the Stanford University are the founding members.
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