摘要：Nato a Venezia nel 1905, Bruno Rossi è considerato unanimemente uno dei giganti della fisica e dell’astrofisica del XX secolo. Egli si formò e iniziò la sua carriera scientifica tra Firenze e Padova, ma fu costretto ad abbandonare il suo Paese nel 1938. Dopo un breve periodo trascorso prima a Copenhagen e poi a Manchester, Rossi andò negli Stati Uniti. Qui fu tra i protagonisti del cosiddetto “Progetto Manhattan” che portò alla realizzazione della prima bomba atomica. Nel 1946 fu infine chiamato al M.I.T. (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), dove rimase per il resto della sua vita. Ripercorreremo qui la sua biografia scientifica iniziata sul Colle di Galileo, “dove - come scrive Rossi – nacqui e crebbi come scienziato” (Rossi, 1987, p. 2). E il suo legame con Firenze e Arcetri è attestato anche dal fatto che, dopo la sua morte a Cambridge, Massachusetts, nel 1993, venne sepolto al Cimitero delle Porte Sante a San Miniato al Monte.
其他摘要：Born in Venice in 1905, Bruno Rossi is unanimously considered one of the most brilliant minds of physics and astrophysics of the twentieth century. He was educated and began his scientific career between Florence and Padua, but he was forced to leave Italy in 1938. After short periods, first in Copenhagen and then in Manchester, Rossi went to the United States. Here he played a pivotal role in what was known as the “Manhattan Project”, which led to the creation of the first atomic bomb. In 1946 he was recruited to M.I.T. (the Massachusetts Institute of Technology), where he remained for the rest of his life. Here we retrace his scientific career, which began on Galileo’s Hill where – as Rossi himself wrote – “I was born as a physicist” (Rossi, 1990, p. 2). His deep bond with Florence and Arcetri is further confirmed by the fact that, after his death in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1993, he was buried in the Cemetery of the Porte Sante at San Miniato al Monte.
