Unraveling the nature of cosmic rays.: Bruno Rossi and The Spread and developments of experimental practices and scientific collaborations in cosmic-ray physics before World War II

• Autores: Luisa Bonolis
• Localización: The Circulation of Science and Technology: Proceedings of the 4th International Conference of the European Society for the History of Science. Barcelona, 18-20 November 2010 / coord. por Antoni M. Roca Rosell, 2012, ISBN 978-84-9965-108-8, págs. 799-803
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • During the late 1920s/beginning of the 1930s, particularly in connection with the birth of Enrico Fermi’s and Bruno Rossi’s research groups in Rome and Florence, strong relationships were established between Italy and other European countries such as Germany, Great Britain and France, as well as with some physicists of the US scientific community. Bruno Rossi, an outstanding scientist in the study of cosmic rays and the pioneer of this research field in Italy since the early 1930s, is a prominent example in this sense. His friendship with Fermi, Bothe, Blackett, Heisenberg, Bethe, was instrumental for the exchange of knowledge about experimental practices and for theoretical discussions. Rossi was also successful in attracting the interest of physicists such as Arthur H. Compton and Louis Leprince-Ringuet on the problem of cosmic rays. The ties established during the 1930s and the solidarity of many members of the international scientific community gave Rossi the courage to begin a new life in a new world when he was obliged to leave Italy after the enactment of fascist racist laws in 1938 and were instrumental for his later contribution to the rebirth and development of European physics after the war.