Reflecting on – Frank Close (centre) discusses the life of the Italian physicist Bruno Pontecorvo, who defected to the Soviet Union in 1950. If you’re not aware of Pontecorvo, that’s a shame – though ...

When Italian physicist Bruno Pontecorvo (1913–1993) disappeared in 1950, everyone believed he had fled to the U.S.S.R. to escape the fate of physicist Klaus Fuchs, arrested earlier that year “for ...

Scholarly Dr. Bruno Pontecorvo, 37, was well-liked by his fellow nuclear physicists at Britain’s Harwell atomic research plant. The Italian-born Briton was jolly and fun-loving, a good dancer, an ...

In 1950, the eminent physicist Bruno Pontecorvo suddenly vanished, along with his wife and three sons, from their home near Oxford, England, where Pontecorvo had been working with Britain’s atomic ...

Half-Life: The Divided Life of Bruno Pontecorvo, Physicist or Spy. By Frank Close. Basic Books; 400 pages; $29.99. To be published in Britain by Oneworld in March. AFTER nearly a decade of helping ...

(Kingston, ON) – Queen's University Physics Professor Art McDonald is the first Canadian to win the prestigious international Bruno Pontecorvo Prize in elementary particle physics, Russia's top award ...

Maksimovic: the Story of Bruno Pontecorvo, the 2013 documentary written by Italian theoretical physicist Giuseppe Mussardo, tells the tale of one of the most mysterious physicists of the 20th century.

Midway on life's journey -- First half. From Pisa to Rome ; Slow neutrons and fast reactions : 1934-1936 ; Paris and politics : 1936-1940 ; The first escape : 1940 ; Neutrons for oil and war : ...