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492 MILLENNIUM-SECOND EDITION D irector of ICRANet (ICRA Network), coauthor of 650 scientific publications and 13 books, Remo Ruffini received his doctorate at Sapienza in Rome in 1967. He taught in Hamburg, at Princeton University and the Institute for Advanced Study, in Japan, Australia andCBPF (Brazil). Some of hismajor results: boson stars, “Introducing the Black Hole” with J.A. Wheeler, and the limiting critical mass of neutron stars. He identified the first black hole in our Galaxy using UHURU satellite data with Giacconi (nobel recipient 2002), and received the Cressy Morrison Award (1973). Returning to Sapienza (1979), he promoted a Rome –Stanford collaboration on gravitational wave detectors. With European, US and Chinese institutions he established the International Center for Relativistic Astrophysics (ICRA) and later ICRANET in Italy, Armenia, France and Brazil (2005). He developed an understanding of gamma ray bursts, confirmed by the largest telescopes on earth and from space: from their discovery in 1973, to their cosmological origin in 1997, to determining seven different GRBs families and their conceptual understanding, in 2018. This has enabled GRBs, the largest explosions in the universe, to be used to enlighten our comprehension of our universe. PHYSICS PROFESSOR ICRANet Pescara, Italy REMO J. RUFFINI, PHD H arry A. Rissetto has amassed 44 years of professional experience in the legal field, 40 of which were focused on labor and employment with Morgan, Lewis & Bockius. To prepare for his career, Mr. Rissetto earned a Bachelor of Arts from Fairfield University and a Juris Doctor from Georgetown University. From 1968 to 1970 he worked as a law clerk for the Honorable John J. Sirica of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia and Chief Justice Warren E. Burger of the Supreme Court of the United States. Upon retiring from Morgan, Lewis & Bockius in 2014, he began working with the airline, trucking and railroad industries to represent national transportation service entities in cases involving employer labor relations, discrimination litigation, and appellate advocacy. In addition to his work in the courtroom, Mr. Rissetto also served as an adjunct professor at the Georgetown University Law Center from 1986 to 1989. A member of the American Bar Association and the College of Labor and Employment Lawyers, he is most proud of the work he did on the Conrail to help reform the collective bargaining agreement. LAWYER (RETIRED) Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP Falls Church, VA HARRY A. RISSETTO