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Rossi immediately began a series of experiments that yielded the first proof of the decay of a fundamental particle, the mesotron, now called muon, and a precise measurement of its mean life at rest.
During the war Rossi worked first as consultant on radar development at the Radiation Laboratory of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and then at Los Alamos as co-director of the Detector Group responsible for development of instrumentation for experiments that supported the development of the atomic bombs.
In the fall of 1946 Rossi was appointed professor of physics at MIT where he established the Cosmic Ray Group to investigate the nature and origins of cosmic rays and the properties of the sub-nuclear particles produced in the interaction of cosmic rays with matter.
The researchers are awarded the prize for their pioneering work - partly independently, partly in cooperation - in the field of millisecond pulsations and oscillations of neutron stars in binary star systems.
The BrunoRossiprize is the highest distinction in high-energy astrophysics and has been established in honour of the Italian-American astronomer Prof.
BrunoRossi, the grandfather of high-energy astrophysics and one of the moving forces behind the origins of x-ray astronomy.
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