Human Accomplishment: Bruno Rossi

an Italian experimental physicist. He made major contributions to particle physics and the study of cosmic rays.

Born

13 April 1905 Venice, Italy

Died

21 November 1993 (aged 88) Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Nationality

Italian

Alma mater

University of Bologna

Awards

Elliott Cresson Medal (1974) National Medal of Science (1983) Wolf Prize in Physics (1987) Matteucci Medal (1991)

Institutions

University of Florence University of Padua University of Manchester University of Chicago Cornell University Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Spouse(s)

Nora Lombroso

adultbasic

Italy

Citizenship

Italian, American (after 1943)

Doctoral advisor

Quirino Majorana

Doctoral students

Giuseppe Occhialini Kenneth Greisen Matthew Sands Bernard Gregory George W. Clark Yash Pal

era

1800+

Bruno Rossi