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Giovanni Fazio is a Senior Physicist at Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. He is a well-known astrophysicists and has initiated and participated in many observation programs.

In 1962 he joined the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory and the Harvard College Observatory, where he initiated a program in gamma-ray astronomy using balloon-borne and ground-based detectors. He also initiated the construction of the 10-meter optical reflector at the F. L. Whipple Observatory, Arizona, to search for ultra-high-energy cosmic gamma-rays.

In 1984 Fazio was selected as Principal Investigator for the Infrared Array Camera (IRAC) experiment on the Spitzer Space Telescope (NASA). The telescope was launched in August, 2003, and since then continues to produce many important discoveries and spectacular new images of the infrared Universe.

Fazio is the Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Astronomical Instrumentation. He is also the main editor of The Encyclopedia of Cosmology.

Fazio received the 2019 SPIE George W. Goddard Award in Space and Airborne Optics.