Founders
In 1985, ICRA was founded by Remo Ruffini (University of Rome La Sapienza), Riccardo Giacconi (Nobel Prize for Physics 2002), Abdus Salam (Nobel Prize for Physics 1979), Paul Boynton (University of Washington), George Coyne (Vatican observatory), Francis Everitt (Stanford University) and Fang Li-Zhi (University of Science and Technology of China).
Logo
The logo is a numerical solution depicting the motion of particles in the gravitational and electromagnetic fields near a rotating, charged black hole, based on Albert Einstein’s equations of general relativity.