Rossi, Bruno, 1905-1993

Scope and Contents of the Collection 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. An unpublished autobiography provides information about Rossi's life, including his MIT years. There is correspondence about his efforts to find a position in an American or British physics laboratory before World War II, together with copies of his curriculum vitae and teaching...

Scope and Contents of the Collection The collection contains audio and video recordings of the symposium held September 26-27, 1986, honoring Massachusetts Institute of Technology Institute Professor Philip Morrison on his 70th birthday. Videotapes are available only for the September 27 session. Speakers at the September 26 session include Gene M. Brown, Bruno Rossi, James Peebles, Walter Lewin, Kenneth Brecher, Alan Guth, Francis Low, Jerome Wiesner, Randall Forsberg, Anthony P. French, Lillian Weber, and Owen Gingerich. ...