Mario Livio
Mario Livio was an Israeli, Romanian and American astronomer, astrophysicist, pedagogue, writer, physicist and mathematician (born 1945). He was born at Bucharest.
Also recorded as M. Livio; Maryo Livyo.
Mario Livio in brief
- Born
- 1945
- Known for
- astronomer, astrophysicist, pedagogue, writer, physicist and mathematician
- Place of birth
- Bucharest
Contents
Identity and origins
The authorities additionally record the headings M. Livio and Maryo Livyo. His recorded languages were English and Hebrew.
Career and activity
Mario Livio worked in physics and astrophysics.
He was employed by Space Telescope Science Institute and Technion – Israel Institute of Technology. He belonged to American Association for the Advancement of Science. He worked at Haifa.
Catalogued works
27 works under this name are catalogued by Wikidata Query Service, Open Library, The Art Institute of Chicago and Wellcome Collection. Their recorded dates run from 1562 to 2017.
The Golden Ratio. Śefat ha-simeṭriah. 好奇心. Is God a mathematician?, dated 2009. Why? Astrophysics of Life. The Dark Universe: Matter, Energy and Gravity. Brilliant Blunders. Black Holes. Massive Stars. Decade of Hubble Space Telescope Science. Decade of Extrasolar Planets Around Normal Stars. Analysis of Emission Lines. Local Group as an Astrophysical Laboratory. Planets to Cosmology. Galileo and the Science Deniers. The Accelerating Universe. Unsolved Problems in Stellar Evolution. The Equation That Couldn't Be Solved. Approval of the Rules of the Franciscan Order by Pope Innocent III in 1209, dated n.d., pen and brown ink, with brush and brown wash, heightened with lead white gouache, over incising and black chalk, on cream laid paper, held by The Art Institute of Chicago, inventory 2014.1142. Saint Catherine Disputing with the Philosophers, dated 1562/63, pen and brown ink, with brush and brown wash, heightened with white gouache, over black chalk, on cream laid paper, pieced, held by The Art Institute of Chicago, inventory 2014.1140. Why? : what makes us curious / Mario Livio., dated 2017, held by Wellcome Collection. Brilliant blunders : from Darwin to Einstein - colossal mistakes by great scientists that changed our understanding of life and the universe / Mario Livio., dated 2013, held by Wellcome Collection. Atti della XXXVII Tornata degli Studi storici dell'arte medica e della scienza : Congresso Internazionale "In memoriam Mario Santoro" ... Fermo, Centro Congressi San Martino, 18-20 settembre 2003 / a cura di Fabiola Zurlini., dated 2008, held by Wellcome Collection. Confinement mementos / Maria Livia Osborn., dated 1982, held by Wellcome Collection. What to think about machines that think : today's leading thinkers on the age of machine intelligence / edited by John Brockman., dated [2015], held by Wellcome Collection. What should we be worried about? : real scenarios that keep scientists up at night / John Brockman., dated [2014], held by Wellcome Collection.
In public collections
Work associated with this heading is recorded in 2 named public collections.
The Art Institute of Chicago: 2 recorded objects, read from the institution's own published catalogue. Wellcome Collection: 6 recorded objects, read from the institution's own published catalogue.
Literature
22 scholarly publications naming this subject were located in the registry of record.
Hubble moments: Mario Livio, Nature, 2015. Review: Is God a Mathematician? by Mario Livio, New Scientist, 2009. MARIO LIVIO Is God a Mathematician?, Praxis Filosófica, 2011. Livio, Mario. Is God a Mathematician?, Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies, 2011. Compte rendu de Mario Livio : «Fabuleuses erreurs de Darwin à Einstein», Revue des questions scientifiques, 2019. Determination of Curcuminoids, Piperine, Boswellic Acids and Andrographolides in Food and Dietary Supplements by HPLC, Food Technology and Biotechnology, 2022. Ispitivanje fizikalno-kemijske kompatibilnosti lijekova primjenom analitičkih tehnika: pregled istraživanja razvoja fiksne kombinacije 5-aminosalicilata i folne kiseline, Kemija u Industriji, 2022. Miniaturized shake-flask HPLC method for determination of distribution coefficient of drugs used in inflammatory bowel diseases, Acta Pharmaceutica, 2019. On the Light Curves of Disk and Bulge Novae, The Astrophysical Journal, 2025. Green Solid-Phase (Micro)Extraction of Andrographolides’ from Human Plasma Samples Followed by UHPLC-DAD-QqQ-MS/MS Analysis, Separations, 2023. Polyphenol content and antioxidant activity of phytoestrogen containing food and dietary supplements: DPPH free radical scavenging activity by HPLC, Acta Pharmaceutica, 2022. Physicochemical Compatibility Investigation of Mesalazine and Folic Acid Using Chromatographic and Thermoanalytical Techniques, Pharmaceuticals, 2020. Pharmacokinetic Profiling and Simultaneous Determination of Thiopurine Immunosuppressants and Folic Acid by Chromatographic Methods, Molecules, 2019. Type Ia Supernovae and their implications for cosmology, arXiv. Cosmology and Life, arXiv. Have the Elusive Progenitors of Supernovae Type Ia Been Discovered?, arXiv. The world according to the Hubble Space Telescope, arXiv. The Effects of Planets and Brown Dwarfs on Stellar Rotation and Mass-Loss, arXiv. Will Jets Identify the Progenitors of Type Ia Supernovae?, arXiv. The Disk-Jet Connection in Microquasars and AGN, arXiv. Metallicity, planetary formation and migration, arXiv. Stranger than fiction., Science.
Digitised editions and texts
19 digitised items associated with this heading are catalogued by Internet Archive, DataCite (Swinburne) and DataCite (arXiv).
The First Type Ia Supernovae: An Empirical Approach to Taming Evolutionary Effects In Dark Energy Surveys from SNe Ia at z>2 (2006) — Internet Archive. Type Ia Supernova Discoveries at z>1 From the Hubble Space Telescope: Evidence for Past Deceleration and Constraints on Dark Energy Evolution (2004) — Internet Archive. New Hubble Space Telescope Discoveries of Type Ia Supernovae at z > 1: Narrowing Constraints on the Early Behavior of Dark Energy (2006) — Internet Archive. The optical counterpart to gamma-ray burst GRB970228 observed using the Hubble Space Telescope (1997) — Internet Archive. Chúa Trời Có Phải Là Nhà Toán Học - Tập 1 — Internet Archive. The Unique History of the Globular Cluster Omega Centauri (2002) — Internet Archive. The Disk-Jet Connection in Microquasars and AGN (2003) — Internet Archive. Star Formation at the Twilight of the Dark Ages: Which Stars Reionized the Universe? (2003) — Internet Archive. Black hole formation via hypercritical accretion during common envelope evolution (1999) — Internet Archive. Ubiquitous seeding of supermassive black holes by direct collapse (2012) — Internet Archive. The Equation that Couldn't Be Solved, How Mathematical Genius Discovered the Language of Symmetry by Mario Livio [2005] {512'.2'09--dc22} (2005) — Internet Archive. The world according to the Hubble Space Telescope (2003) — Internet Archive. Proper motions in the knotty, bipolar jet in Henize 2-90 (2024) — DataCite (Swinburne). On the light-curves of disk and bulge novae (2025) — DataCite (arXiv). Formation of super-Earths in icy dead zones around low-mass stars (2022) — DataCite (arXiv). Life on Exoplanets In the Habitable Zone of M-Dwarfs? (2022) — DataCite (arXiv). Massive stars and star clusters in the Antennae galaxies (2006) — DataCite (arXiv). Warping and precession in galactic and extragalactic accretion disks (2006) — DataCite (arXiv). The "Twin Jet" Planetary Nebula M2-9 (2000) — DataCite (arXiv).
Scholarly footprint
Bibliographic registers publish measured figures for this heading: 18 language editions of the general reference literature carrying an article (Wikimedia (language editions)), 113 scientific preprints indexed (arXiv (Cornell University)), 113 deposited research records (DataCite Commons) and 1 biomedical publications indexed (PubMed (National Library of Medicine)). A count of publications is evidence of attention, not of standing, and is given here only as a measure.
Evidence base
This article draws on 9 independent source lineages. Copies and mirrors of the same underlying record were collapsed into a single witness, so 9 means 9 genuinely separate publishers of record. 12 further registers were consulted and returned nothing for this heading.
In detail
Mario Livio studied at Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Tel Aviv University and Weizmann Institute of Science. the recorded working language is English and Hebrew.
The field of work recorded is physics and astrophysics.
Places of work recorded in the authority are Haifa. Employment is recorded with Space Telescope Science Institute and Technion – Israel Institute of Technology. Membership is recorded of American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Distinctions recorded are Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and Peano Prize.
Chronology
- 1945Mario Livio born at Bucharest.
- 1997The optical counterpart to gamma-ray burst GRB970228 observed using the Hubble Space Telescope digitised by Internet Archive.
- 1999The accretion of planets and brown dwarfs by giant stars -- II. solar mass stars on the red giant branch digitised by Internet Archive.
- 2002The Unique History of the Globular Cluster Omega Centauri digitised by Internet Archive.
- 2004Type Ia Supernova Discoveries at z>1 From the Hubble Space Telescope: Evidence for Past Deceleration and Constraints on Dark Energy Evolution digitised by Internet Archive.
- 2005The Equation that Couldn't Be Solved, How Mathematical Genius Discovered the Language of Symmetry by Mario Livio [2005] {512'.2'09--dc22} digitised by Internet Archive.
- 2006The First Type Ia Supernovae: An Empirical Approach to Taming Evolutionary Effects In Dark Energy Surveys from SNe Ia at z>2 digitised by Internet Archive.
- 2006New Hubble Space Telescope Discoveries of Type Ia Supernovae at z > 1: Narrowing Constraints on the Early Behavior of Dark Energy digitised by Internet Archive.
- 2007Planets in the Galactic Bulge: Results from the SWEEPS Project digitised by Internet Archive.
- 2008Atti della XXXVII Tornata degli Studi storici dell'arte medica e della scienza : Congresso Internazionale "In memoriam Mario Santoro" ... Fermo, Centro Congressi San Martino, 18-20 settembre 2003 / a cura di Fabiola Zurlini. (Wellcome Collection).
- 2008Stellar Proper Motions in the Galactic Bulge from deep HST ACS/WFC Photometry digitised by Internet Archive.
- 2009Is God a mathematician?.
- 2013Brilliant blunders : from Darwin to Einstein - colossal mistakes by great scientists that changed our understanding of life and the universe / Mario Livio. (Wellcome Collection).
- 2013Coronal Mass Ejections As a Mechanism for Producing IR Variability in Debris Disks digitised by Internet Archive.
- 2016Why are pulsar planets rare? digitised by Internet Archive.
- 2017Why? : what makes us curious / Mario Livio. (Wellcome Collection).
Sources
Each source is named with the standing the house places on it, so the evidence can be weighed rather than taken on trust.
- 1.
arXiv, Cornell University, preprints naming “Mario Livio”
Institutional database · Scholarly
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Compte rendu de Mario Livio : «Fabuleuses erreurs de Darwin à Einstein», Revue des questions scientifiques, 2019
scholarly publication · Scholarly
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DataCite Commons, deposited research records naming “Mario Livio”
Institutional database · Scholarly
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- 5.
Livio, Mario. Is God a Mathematician?, Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies, 2011
scholarly publication · Scholarly
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MARIO LIVIO Is God a Mathematician?, Praxis Filosófica, 2011
scholarly publication · Scholarly
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Open Library author record for Mario Livio (Internet Archive), 19 catalogued works.
Institutional database · Scholarly · Internet Archive
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PubMed, United States National Library of Medicine, records for “Mario Livio”
Institutional database · Scholarly
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Review: Is God a Mathematician? by Mario Livio, New Scientist, 2009
scholarly publication · Scholarly
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Directory of Open Access Journals lists 16 articles naming Mario Livio.
open access index · Unverified
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Internet Archive, 91 digitised items catalogued under Mario Livio as creator.
digital repository · Unverified
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The Art Institute of Chicago, collection records associated with Mario Livio.
museum collection · Unverified · The Art Institute of Chicago
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Wellcome Collection catalogue records 6 works naming Mario Livio.
museum collection · Unverified · Wellcome Collection
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Wikidata, structured authority record Q1898912: Mario Livio
reference work · Reputable secondary · Wikimedia Foundation
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“Mario Livio”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading
reference work · Reputable secondary · Wikipedia
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