Born:Bruno Benedetto Rossi, (1905-04-13)13 April 1905, Venice, Italy
Died:21 November 1993(1993-11-21) (aged 88), Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.
Awards:Elliott Cresson Medal (1974), National Medal of Science (1983), Wolf Prize in Physics (1987), Matteucci Medal (1991)
Spouse:Nora Lombroso (m. 1938)
Children:3
Alma mater:University of Bologna
Citizenship:Italian, American (after 1943)
Institutions:University of Florence, University of Padua, University of Manchester, University of Chicago, Cornell University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of Palermo
Resting place:San Miniato al Monte Graveyard, Florence
Doctoral advisor:Quirino Majorana
Doctoral students:Giuseppe Occhialini, Kenneth Greisen, Matthew Sands, Bernard Gregory, George W. Clark, Yash Pal, Herbert S. Bridge