Bruno Pontecorvo
Physicist, Deceased Person
1913 – 1993
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Who was Bruno Pontecorvo?
Bruno Pontecorvo was an Italian nuclear physicist, an early assistant of Enrico Fermi and then the author of numerous studies in high energy physics, especially on neutrinos. According to Oleg Gordievsky and Pavel Sudoplatov, Pontecorvo was also a Soviet agent. He defected to the Soviet Union in 1950, where he continued his research on the decay of the muon and on neutrinos. The prestigious Pontecorvo Prize was instituted in his memory in 1995.
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- Born
- Aug 22, 1913
Marina di Pisa - Also known as
- Bruno Maksimovich Pontekorvo
- Бру́но Макси́мович Понтеко́рво
- Siblings
- Spouses
- Nationality
- Italy
- United Kingdom
- Profession
- Education
- University of Rome La Sapienza
- Employment
- University of Rome La Sapienza
- Lived in
- Pisa
- Died
- Sep 24, 1993
Dubna
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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