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 ...

“Atom Man Flies Away,” declared a banner headline in London’s Daily Express. “British intelligence service MI5 has been brought into the hunt for the missing atomic scientist,” reported the BBC. On ...

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 ...

Until the summer of 1950, when he was 37, the Italian-born physicist Bruno Pontecorvo seemed to be leading a charmed life. He had just accepted a professorship at the University of Liverpool. He was ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

The jury of the International Bruno Pontecorvo prize announced on February 27 that the Bruno Pontecorvo Prize for 2016 is to be awarded to Prof. WANG Yifang from the Institute of High Energy Physics ...

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 : ...