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Bruno Rossi

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Bruno Benedetto Rossi (13 April 1905 – 21 November 1993) was an Italian experimental physicist. [1]

65 relations: Air shower (physics), Asimov's Biographical Encyclopedia of Science and Technology, B. V. Sreekantan, Bernard Gregory, British contribution to the Manhattan Project, Bruno (name), Bruno Rossi Prize, Cimitero delle Porte Sante, Claude R. Canizares, Coincidence circuit, Cosmic ray, David B. Nicodemus, Emilio Del Giudice, Erich Regener, Eugenio Curiel, Experimental testing of time dilation, Giampietro Puppi, Giuseppe Occhialini, Harry J. Lipkin, History of X-ray astronomy, Homi J. Bhabha, Index of physics articles (B), Italian Americans, Italians, Italy, Jerrold R. Zacharias, John C. Slater, John Linsley, Kenneth Greisen, Lee Spetner, List of astronomers, List of Cornell Manhattan Project people, List of Cornell University faculty, List of Institute Professors at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, List of Italian Americans, List of Italian scientists, List of Italians, List of Massachusetts Institute of Technology faculty, List of minor planets named after people, List of National Medal of Science laureates, List of physicists, List of West European Jews, Marjorie Townsend, Martin Deutsch, Matteucci Medal, Matthew Sands, Meanings of minor planet names: 17001–18000, Mount Evans, Oreste Piccioni, Philip Morrison, ..., Racial segregation, RaLa Experiment, Robert Bacher, Rossi (surname), Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer, San Miniato al Monte, Shelter Island Conference, Time-to-digital converter, Timeline of white dwarfs, neutron stars, and supernovae, Val Logsdon Fitch, Walther Bothe, Wolf Prize in Physics, Yash Pal, 1905 in Italy, 1905 in science. Expand index (15 more) »

Air shower (physics)

An air shower is an extensive (many kilometres wide) cascade of ionized particles and electromagnetic radiation produced in the atmosphere when a primary cosmic ray (i.e. one of extraterrestrial origin) enters the atmosphere.

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Asimov's Biographical Encyclopedia of Science and Technology

Asimov's Biographical Encyclopedia of Science and Technology is a history of science by Isaac Asimov, written as the biographies of over 1500 scientists.

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B. V. Sreekantan

Badanaval Venkatasubba Sreekantan (born 30 June 1925) is an Indian high-energy astrophysicist and a former associate of Homi J. Bhabha at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR).

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Bernard Gregory

Bernard Gregory (19 January 1919, Bergerac – 24 December 1977, Élancourt) was a prominent French physicist and director-general of CERN.

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British contribution to the Manhattan Project

Britain contributed to the Manhattan Project by helping initiate the effort to build the first atomic bombs in the United States during World War II, and helped carry it through to completion in August 1945 by supplying crucial expertise.

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Bruno (name)

Bruno is a male given name.

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Bruno Rossi Prize

The Bruno Rossi Prize is awarded annually by the High Energy Astrophysics division of the American Astronomical Society "for a significant contribution to High Energy Astrophysics, with particular emphasis on recent, original work".

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Cimitero delle Porte Sante

Cimitero delle Porte Sante (The Sacred Doors Cemetery) is a monumental cemetery in Florence located within the fortified bastion of the Basilica of San Miniato al Monte.

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Claude R. Canizares

Claude R. Canizares stepped down June 30, 2015 from his post as Vice President of MIT.

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Coincidence circuit

In physics, a coincidence circuit is an electronic device with one output and two (or more) inputs.

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Cosmic ray

Cosmic rays are high-energy radiation, mainly originating outside the Solar System and even from distant galaxies.

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David B. Nicodemus

David Bowman Nicodemus (1 July 1916 – 19 June 1999) was a physicist, Physics Professor and Administrator at Oregon State University, and part of the Manhattan Project team.

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Emilio Del Giudice

Emilio Del Giudice (1 January 1940 – 31 January 2014) was an Italian theoretical physicist who worked in the field of condensed matter.

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Erich Regener

Erich Rudolf Alexander Regener (12 November 1881 – 27 February 1955) was a German physicist known primarily for the design and construction of instruments to measure cosmic ray intensity at various altitudes.

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Eugenio Curiel

Eugenio Curiel (December 11, 1912 in Trieste – February 24, 1945 in Milan) was an Italian physicist and a prominent figure of the Italian resistance movement.

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Experimental testing of time dilation

Time dilation as predicted by special relativity is often verified by means of particle lifetime experiments.

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Giampietro Puppi

Giampetro Puppi (20 November 1917 – 25 December 2006) was an Italian physicist who is known for his contribution to the theory of weak interactions.

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Giuseppe Occhialini

Giuseppe Paolo Stanislao "Beppo" Occhialini ForMemRS (5 December 1907 – 30 December 1993) was an Italian physicist, who contributed to the discovery of the pion or pi-meson decay in 1947, with César Lattes and Cecil Frank Powell (Nobel Prize for Physics).

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Harry J. Lipkin

Harry Jeannot Lipkin (June 16, 1921 – September 15, 2015), also known as Zvi Lipkin, was an Israeli theoretical physicist specializing in nuclear physics and elementary particle physics.

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History of X-ray astronomy

The history of X-ray astronomy begins in the 1920s, with interest in short wave communications for the U.S. Navy.

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Homi J. Bhabha

Homi Jehangir Bhabha (30 October 1909 – 24 January 1966) was an Indian nuclear physicist, founding director, and professor of physics at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR).

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Index of physics articles (B)

The index of physics articles is split into multiple pages due to its size.

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Italian Americans

Italian Americans (italoamericani or italo-americani) are an ethnic group consisting of Americans who have ancestry from Italy.

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Italians

The Italians (Italiani) are a Latin European ethnic group and nation native to the Italian peninsula.

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Italy

Italy (Italia), officially the Italian Republic (Repubblica Italiana), is a sovereign state in Europe.

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Jerrold R. Zacharias

Jerrold Reinach Zacharias (January 23, 1905 – July 16, 1986) was an American physicist and Institute Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, as well as an education reformer.

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John C. Slater

John Clarke Slater (December 22, 1900 – July 25, 1976) was a noted American physicist who made major contributions to the theory of the electronic structure of atoms, molecules and solids.

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John Linsley

John David Linsley (12 March 1925 – 25 September 2002) was an American physicist who performed pioneering research on cosmic rays, particularly ultra-high-energy cosmic rays.

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Kenneth Greisen

Kenneth Ingvard Greisen (24 January 1918 in Perth Amboy, New Jersey – 17 March 2007 in Ithaca, New York) was an American physicist who worked on nuclear physics and the astrophysics of cosmic rays and gamma radiation.

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Lee Spetner

Lee M. Spetner is an American and Israeli applied biophysical, physicist and a creationist author, known best for his critique of the modern synthesis.

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List of astronomers

The following are list of astronomers, astrophysicists and other notable people who have made contributions to the field of astronomy.

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List of Cornell Manhattan Project people

Scientists from Cornell University played a major role in developing the technology that resulted in the first atomic bombs used in World War II.

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List of Cornell University faculty

This list of Cornell University faculty includes notable current and former instructors and administrators of Cornell University, an Ivy League university located in Ithaca, New York.

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List of Institute Professors at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Institute Professor is the highest title that can be awarded to a faculty member at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a research university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States.

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List of Italian Americans

This is a list of notable Italian Americans.

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List of Italian scientists

This is a list of notable Italian scientists organized by the era in which they were active.

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List of Italians

This is a list of Italians, who are identified with the Italian nation through residential, legal, historical, or cultural means, grouped by their area of notability.

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List of Massachusetts Institute of Technology faculty

This list of Massachusetts Institute of Technology faculty includes current, emeritus, former, and deceased professors, lecturers, and researchers.

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List of minor planets named after people

This is a list of minor planets named after people, both real and fictional.

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List of National Medal of Science laureates

The National Medal of Science is an honor bestowed by the President of the United States to individuals in science and engineering who have made important contributions to the advancement of knowledge in the following six fields, behavioral and social sciences, biology, chemistry, engineering, mathematics and physical sciences.

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List of physicists

Following is a list of physicists who are notable for their achievements.

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List of West European Jews

Apart from France, established Jewish populations exist in the Netherlands, Belgium, Italy and Switzerland.

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Marjorie Townsend

Marjorie Trees Townsend (née Rhodes; March 12, 1930 – April 4, 2015) was an American electrical engineer, and the first woman to manage a spacecraft launch for NASA.

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Martin Deutsch

Martin Deutsch (29 January 1917 – 16 August 2002) was an Austrian-American physicist, who was emeritus professor of physics at MIT.

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Matteucci Medal

The Matteucci Medal is an Italian award for physicists, named after Carlo Matteucci.

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Matthew Sands

Matthew Linzee Sands (October 20, 1919 – September 13, 2014) was an American physicist and educator best known as a co-author of the Feynman Lectures on Physics.

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Meanings of minor planet names: 17001–18000

032 | 17032 Edlu || || Edward Tsang Lu (born 1963), a physicist specializing in solar physics.

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Mount Evans

Mount Evans is the highest summit of the Chicago Peaks in the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains of North America.

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Oreste Piccioni

Oreste Piccioni (October 24, 1915 – April 13, 2002) was an Italian-American physicist who made important contributions to elementary particle physics during the early years of its history.

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Philip Morrison

Philip Morrison (November 7, 1915 – April 22, 2005) was a professor of physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

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Racial segregation

Racial segregation is the separation of people into racial or other ethnic groups in daily life.

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RaLa Experiment

The RaLa Experiment, or RaLa, was a series of tests during and after the Manhattan Project designed to study the behavior of converging shock waves to achieve the spherical implosion necessary for compression of the plutonium pit of the nuclear weapon.

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Robert Bacher

Robert Fox Bacher (August 31, 1905 – November 18, 2004) was an American nuclear physicist and one of the leaders of the Manhattan Project.

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Rossi (surname)

Rossi is an Italian surname, said to be the most common surname in Italy.

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Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer

The Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE) was a satellite that observed the time variation of astronomical X-ray sources, named after physicist Bruno Rossi.

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San Miniato al Monte

San Miniato al Monte (St. Minias on the Mountain) is a basilica in Florence, central Italy, standing atop one of the highest points in the city.

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Shelter Island Conference

The first Shelter Island Conference on the Foundations of Quantum Mechanics was held from June 2–4, 1947 at the Ram's Head Inn in Shelter Island, New York.

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Time-to-digital converter

In electronic instrumentation and signal processing, a time to digital converter (abbreviated TDC) is a device for recognizing events and providing a digital representation of the time they occurred.

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Timeline of white dwarfs, neutron stars, and supernovae

Timeline of neutron stars, pulsars, supernovae, and white dwarfs Note that this list is mainly about the development of knowledge, but also about some supernovae taking place.

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Val Logsdon Fitch

Val Logsdon Fitch (March 10, 1923 – February 5, 2015) was an American nuclear physicist who, with co-researcher James Cronin, was awarded the 1980 Nobel Prize in Physics for a 1964 experiment using the Alternating Gradient Synchrotron at Brookhaven National Laboratory that proved that certain subatomic reactions do not adhere to fundamental symmetry principles.

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Walther Bothe

Walther Wilhelm Georg Bothe (8 January 1891 – 8 February 1957) was a German nuclear physicist, who shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1954 with Max Born.

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Wolf Prize in Physics

The Wolf Prize in Physics is awarded once a year by the Wolf Foundation in Israel.

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Yash Pal

Yash Pal (26 November 1926 – 24 July 2017) was an Indian scientist, educator and educationist.

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1905 in Italy

See also: 1904 in Italy, other events of 1905, 1906 in Italy.

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1905 in science

The year 1905 in science and technology involved some significant events, particularly in physics, listed below.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruno_Rossi

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