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Bruno Rossi

1905 - 1993

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Bruno Benedetto Rossi ( ROSS-ee, Italian: [ˈbruːno beneˈdetto ˈrossi]; 13 April 1905 – 21 November 1993) was an Italian-American 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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Bruno Rossi is the 419th most popular physicist (up from 433rd in 2019), the 2,156th most popular biography from Italy (up from 2,290th in 2019) and the 16th most popular Italian Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Bruno Rossi ranks 419 out of 851. Before him are Charles H. Bennett, William Watson, Lyman Spitzer, Jacques-Arsène d'Arsonval, Johannes Franz Hartmann, and Robert W. Wood. After him are Georgy Flyorov, Johann Andreas Segner, John Mauchly, Jules Jamin, Louis Harold Gray, and John Henry Poynting.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1905, Bruno Rossi ranks 110. Before him are Manuel Ferreira, Robert Stevenson, Jean Daniélou, Gerhard Klopfer, Mikio Naruse, and John Lyng. After him are Anna May Wong, Louis Harold Gray, Natalia Pavlovna Paley, Maria von Trapp, Pierre Klossowski, and Wanda Wasilewska. Among people deceased in 1993, Bruno Rossi ranks 85. Before him are Dinmukhamed Kunaev, John Connally, Luciano Leggio, Marian Anderson, E. P. Thompson, and C. Northcote Parkinson. After him are Christian Metz, Nina Berberova, József Antall, Tatiana Nikolayeva, Matthew Ridgway, and Héctor Lavoe.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Bruno Rossi ranks 2,156 out of 5,161. Before him are Lucien Bianchi (1934), Antiochus of Syracuse (-450), Archduke Johann Salvator of Austria (1852), Philip of Opus (-400), Marcel Bich (1914), and Umberto Bossi (1941). After him are Mario Roatta (1887), Azeglio Vicini (1933), Francesco Maria II della Rovere (1549), Antonio Grimani (1434), Vitale Faliero (1100), and Andrew Corsini (1301).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Italy

Among physicists born in Italy, Bruno Rossi ranks 16. Before him are Giovanni Battista Venturi (1746), Giovanni Battista Amici (1786), Bruno Pontecorvo (1913), Giorgio Parisi (1948), Galileo Ferraris (1847), and Federico Faggin (1941). After him are Carlo Matteucci (1811), Gabriele Veneziano (1942), Carlo Rovelli (1956), Macedonio Melloni (1798), Augusto Righi (1850), and Giovanni Aldini (1762).

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