Rossi, Bruno

Bruno Rossi
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Name	Rossi, Bruno Gender: M
Birthname	Bruno Benedetto Rossi
born on	13 April 1905 at 15:40 (= 3:40 PM )
Place	Venice, Italy, 45n27, 12e21
Timezone	MET h1e (is standard time)
Data source	Quoted BC/BR Rodden Rating AA Collector: Bordoni
Astrology data	23°00' 01°47 Asc. 17°30'

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Bruno Rossi
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Biography

Italian experimental physicist who 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.

Rossi retired from MIT in 1970. From 1974 to 1980 he taught at the University of Palermo. In retirement he wrote a number of monographs, and a 1990 autobiography, Moments in the Life of a Scientist, which was published by Cambridge University Press. He died from a cardiac arrest at his home in Cambridge on 21 November 1993, aged 88.

Link to Wikipedia biography

Relationships

• associate relationship with Blackett, Patrick (born 18 November 1897). Notes: Colleagues

• associate relationship with Bohr, Niels (born 7 October 1885). Notes: Colleagues

• associate relationship with Fermi, Enrico (born 29 September 1901). Notes: Colleagues

Events

• Work : Retired 1970

• Work : Published/ Exhibited/ Released 1990 (Autobiography, "Moments in the Life of a Scientist")

• Death by Heart Attack 21 November 1993 (Age 88)
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Source Notes

Grazia Bordoni quotes birth certificate.

Categories

• Diagnoses : Body Part Problems : Heart

• Personal : Death : Illness/ Disease (Heart attack)

• Personal : Death : Long life more than 80 yrs (Age 88)

• Vocation : Education : Researcher

• Vocation : Education : Teacher

• Vocation : Science : Physics

• Vocation : Writers : Autobiographer ("Moments in the Life of a Scientist")

• Notable : Famous : First in Field

• Notable : Famous : Founder/ originator