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 ...

For decades the mystery of why Italian nuclear physicist Bruno Pontecorvo defected from the Allies to the USSR has baffled Cold War historians. The scientist, while on holiday in Italy with his wife ...

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 ...

Bruno Pontecorvo's defection to the Soviet Union in 1950 is one of the more singular events in the history of Cold War science. A talented physicist who had been involved in wartime nuclear research, ...

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 ...

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 ...