Elliott Cresson Medal (1974) National Medal of Science (1983) Wolf Prize in Physics (1987) Matteucci Medal (1991)
Scientific career
Institutions
University of Florence University of Padua University of Manchester University of Chicago Cornell University Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Doctoral advisor
Quirino Majorana
Doctoral students
Giuseppe Occhialini Kenneth Greisen Matthew Sands Bernard Gregory George W. Clark Yash Pal
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Bruno Benedetto Rossi (/ˈrɒsi/; Italian:[ˈrossi]; 13 April 1905 – 21 November 1993) was an Italian experimental physicist. He made major contributions to particle physics and the study of cosmic rays. A 1927 graduate of the University of Bologna, he became interested in cosmic rays. To study them, he invented an improved electronic coincidence circuit, and travelled to Eritrea to conduct experiments that showed that cosmic ray intensity from the West was significantly larger than that from the East.
Forced to emigrate in October 1938 due to the Italian racial laws, Rossi moved to Denmark, where he worked with Niels Bohr. He then moved to Britain, where he worked with Patrick Blackett at the University of Manchester. Finally he went to the United States, where he worked with Enrico Fermi at the University of Chicago, and later at Cornell University. Rossi stayed in the United States, and became an American Citizen.
During World War II, Rossi worked on radar at the MIT Radiation Laboratory, and he played a pivotal role in the Manhattan Project, heading the group at the Los Alamos Laboratory that carried out the RaLa Experiments. After the war, he was recruited by Jerrold Zacharias at MIT, where Rossi continued his pre-war research into cosmic rays.
In the 1960s, he pioneered X-ray astronomy and space plasma physics. His instrumentation on Explorer 10 detected the magnetopause, and he initiated the rocket experiments that discovered Scorpius X-1, the first extra-solar source of X-rays.
Bruno Benedetto Rossi (/ˈrɒsi/; Italian: [ˈrossi]; 13 April 1905 – 21 November 1993) was an Italian experimental physicist. He made major contributions...
method of coincidence and the discoveries subsequently made by it." BrunoRossi invented the electronic coincidence circuit for implementing the coincidence...
The BrunoRossi Prize is awarded annually by the High Energy Astrophysics division of the American Astronomical Society "for a significant contribution...
named "Signor Rossi" (English: Mr. Rossi), has been featured in many animated shorts as well as starring in three feature films: Mr. Rossi Looks for Happiness...
In 1940 at Echo Lake (3240 m) and Denver in Colorado (1616 m), BrunoRossi and D. B. Hall measured the relativistic decay of muons (which they thought...
brought on as Chairman of the Board of Directors, BrunoRossi, Ph.D., of MIT to help guide their efforts. Rossi had earlier confirmed the existence of cosmic...
being projected at a small angle relative to the observer. The 1996 BrunoRossi Prize of the American Astronomical Society was awarded to Felix Mirabel...
Serber and developed by a team led by the Italian experimental physicist BrunoRossi. The tests were performed with 1⁄8 inch (3.2 mm) spheres of radioactive...
Hess received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1936 for his discovery. BrunoRossi wrote in 1964: In the late 1920s and early 1930s the technique of self-recording...
measurement of the lifetime of the muon (originally called the mesotron) by BrunoRossi in 1939, used sites at Mount Blue Sky, Echo Lake, Denver and Chicago...
Office. May 3, 2002. Retrieved 2007-03-23. "Dec. 15 memorial planned for BrunoRossi". MIT News Office. December 1, 1993. Retrieved 2007-04-22. "Economist...
played Frank Calabrisi in the four-part drama The Principal in 2015, BrunoRossi in The Secret Daughter in 2016, and was seen in Brock that same year...
Brouwer Award (DDA), for lifetime achievement in dynamical astronomy The BrunoRossi Prize (HEAD), for a significant recent contribution to high-energy astrophysics...
began drifting towards the stars. In 1954, he published a paper with BrunoRossi and Stanislaw Olbert in which they explored Enrico Fermi's theory of...
building on research by G. Dobler, worked around this problem. The 2014 BrunoRossi Prize went to Tracy Slatyer, Douglas Finkbeiner, and Meng Su "for their...
also Giovanni Bignami, astrophysicist (BrunoRossi Prize 1993); Patrizia Caraveo, astrophysicist (BrunoRossi Prize 2007, 2011 e 2012); Elena Cattaneo...
Prize in Fundamental Physics, the Gruber Prize in Cosmology, and the BrunoRossi Prize for his work on LIGO. Shawhan received his bachelor's degree in...
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) under the supervision of BrunoRossi. Sands went to the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in 1950...
and LISA. He has translated three popular science books into Italian. BrunoRossi Prize 2024, as a member of the IXPE Team "Città di Monselice" award for...
Prize as part of Kamiokande (Representative – Masatoshi Koshiba) 1989 – BrunoRossi Prize along with the other members of the Kamiokande collaboration 1998...
Oppenheimer Memorial Prize in 1981, the National Medal of Science in 1985, the BrunoRossi Prize in 1989, the Michelson–Morley Award in 1990, the Panofsky Prize...
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