Half-Life: The Divided Life of Bruno Pontecorvo, Physicist or Spy
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- Synopsis
- Bruno Pontecorvo dedicated his career to hunting for the Higgs boson of his day: the neutrino, a nearly massless particle considered essential to the process of nuclear fission. His work on the Manhattan project under Enrico Fermi confirmed his reputation as a brilliant physicist and helped usher in the nuclear age. He should have won a Nobel Prize, but late in the summer of 1950 he vanished. At the height of the Cold War, Pontecorvo had disappeared behind the Iron Curtain. In Half-Life, physicist and historian Frank Close offers a heretofore untold history of Pontecorvo’s life, based on unprecedented access to his friends, family, and colleagues. With all the elements of a Cold War thriller-classified atomic research, an infamous double agent, a kidnapping by Soviet operatives-Half-Life is a history of particle physics at perhaps its most powerful: when it created the bomb.
- Copyright:
- 2015
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- Book Size:
- 400 Pages
- ISBN-13:
- 9780465044870
- Related ISBNs:
- 9780465069989
- Publisher:
- Basic Books
- Date of Addition:
- 05/28/21
- Copyrighted By:
- Frank Close
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Nonfiction, Science, Biographies and Memoirs, Technology
- Submitted By:
- Bookshare Staff
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.
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