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Bruno Rossi

1905 - 1993

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Bruno Benedetto Rossi (; 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Bruno Rossi has received more than 156,216 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Bruno Rossi is the 438th most popular physicist (down from 428th in 2019), the 2,364th most popular biography from Italy (down from 2,257th in 2019) and the 19th most popular Italian Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Bruno Rossi ranks 438 out of 717. Before him are John Dollond, Gene Amdahl, Gaspard de Prony, Saul Perlmutter, Giovanni Battista Amici, and Emil Wiechert. After him are Jean Léonard Marie Poiseuille, Eugen Goldstein, Richard Mollier, G. M. B. Dobson, Ivan Puluj, and Heinrich Rubens.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1905, Bruno Rossi ranks 122. Before him are Louis Harold Gray, Abraham Zapruder, Savitri Devi, Franjo Šeper, Jacinto Quincoces, and Nathan Homer Knorr. After him are Aldo Fabrizi, Eduard Tubin, Robert Penn Warren, Sven Rydell, Louis Rosier, and Michael Powell. Among people deceased in 1993, Bruno Rossi ranks 92. Before him are Frunzik Mkrtchyan, GG Allin, Raymond Burr, Sun Ra, Marian Anderson, and Monte Melkonian. After him are Deke Slayton, Juan Jesús Posadas Ocampo, Sebastiano Baggio, Anna Sten, Józef Czapski, and Andrey Nikolayevich Tikhonov.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Bruno Rossi ranks 2,364 out of 4,668. Before him are Louis I of Naples (1320), Pellegrino Rossi (1787), Lucius Afranius (-150), Ugolino di Nerio (1280), Ricardo Ezzati Andrello (1942), and Michele Ruggieri (1543). After him are Gloria Guida (1955), Luigi Villoresi (1909), Giuseppe Colombo (1920), Guido Crepax (1933), Aldo Fabrizi (1905), and Alfredo Ildefonso Schuster (1880).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Italy

Among physicists born in Italy, Bruno Rossi ranks 19. Before him are Galileo Ferraris (1847), Giovanni Aldini (1762), Gabriele Veneziano (1942), Carlo Matteucci (1811), Federico Faggin (1941), and Giovanni Battista Amici (1786). After him are Richard Mollier (1863), Giovanni Poleni (1683), Edoardo Amaldi (1908), Giovanni Battista Beccaria (1716), Nicola Cabibbo (1935), and Macedonio Melloni (1798).

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