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| | AIP International Catalog of Sources (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20) |
 | | Bruno Benedetto Rossi, 1905-1993, Ph.D. in physics, 1927, University of Bologna, after four years as assistant professor of physics at the University of Florence, was named professor of physics at the University of Padua. |
 | | In 1960 he initiated an exploratory search for cosmic x-rays which led to the discovery of the Scipio x-ray source, the first non-solar source of cosmic x-rays to be observed. |
 | | Rossi's education and early teaching career are recorded in lecture notes of one of his professors, annotated by Rossi, his physics course notebooks, and his published lecture notes from the University of Padua. |
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