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The President's National Medal of Science: Recipient Details

Bruno B. Rossi

Title:

Emeritus Professor of Physics

Affiliation:

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Cambridge,Massachusetts  USA

Gender:

Male

Year Deceased:

1993

Award Discipline:

Physical Sciences

Award Year:

1983

Citation:

"For fundamental contributions to physics and astronomy through his investigations into the nature and origin of cosmic rays and his initiatives that led to the direct detection of the solar wind and to the discovery of extrasolar x-ray sources."

Presented by President Reagan at a White House Ceremony on February 27, 1985.

 

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