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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Bruno Rossi has received more than 164,543 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Bruno Rossi is the 432nd most popular physicist (up from 438th in 2019), the 2,290th most popular biography from Italy (up from 2,359th in 2019) and the 17th most popular Italian Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Bruno Rossi ranks 432 out of 851. Before him are Johann Andreas Segner, Karl Guthe Jansky, Robert J. Van de Graaff, Philip Morrison, Douglas Hofstadter, and Mildred Dresselhaus. After him are Giovanni Battista Amici, Hendrik Casimir, Anatoli Bugorski, Vladimir Fock, Charles Galton Darwin, and George Volkoff.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1905, Bruno Rossi ranks 113. Before him are Giacinto Scelsi, Preguinho, Jean Daniélou, Karl Guthe Jansky, Wanda Wasilewska, and Martin Gottfried Weiss. After him are Anfilogino Guarisi, Karl Amadeus Hartmann, Victor Kravchenko, Joseph Bonanno, Harry Harlow, and Leo Genn. Among people deceased in 1993, Bruno Rossi ranks 91. Before him are József Antall, E. P. Thompson, Shovkat Alakbarova, Christian Metz, Frunzik Mkrtchyan, and Joseph Serchuk. After him are GG Allin, Raymond Burr, Euronymous, Sun Ra, Leo Löwenthal, and Ugo Locatelli.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Bruno Rossi ranks 2,290 out of 5,161. Before him are Pirro Ligorio (1513), Appius Claudius Crassus (-550), Francesco Erizzo (1566), Giorgio Perlasca (1910), Salvadore Cammarano (1801), and Lucia Anguissola (1536). After him are Alejandro Malaspina (1754), Luigi Illica (1857), Carlo Ruzzini (1653), Domenico Dragonetti (1763), Eduardo di Capua (1865), and Archduke Maximilian of Austria-Este (1782).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Italy

Among physicists born in Italy, Bruno Rossi ranks 17. Before him are Giorgio Parisi (1948), Bruno Pontecorvo (1913), Galileo Ferraris (1847), Carlo Matteucci (1811), Fabiola Gianotti (1960), and Federico Faggin (1941). After him are Giovanni Battista Amici (1786), Gabriele Veneziano (1942), Giovanni Aldini (1762), Carlo Rovelli (1956), Richard Mollier (1863), and Giovanni Poleni (1683).

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