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Half Life - The Divided Life of Bruno Pontecorvo, Physicist or Spy (Paperback)
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Half Life - The Divided Life of Bruno Pontecorvo, Physicist or Spy (Paperback)
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Discovery Miles: 11 780
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The memo landed on Kim Philby's desk in Washington, DC, in July
1950. Three months later, Bruno Pontecorvo, a physicist at Harwell,
Britain's atomic energy lab, disappeared without a trace. When he
re-surfaced six years later, he was on the other side of the Iron
Curtain. One of the most brilliant scientists of his generation,
Pontecorvo was privy to many secrets: he had worked on the
Anglo-Canadian arm of the Manhattan Project, and quietly discovered
a way to find the uranium coveted by nuclear powers. Yet when he
disappeared MI5 insisted he was not a threat. Now, based on
unprecedented access to archives, letters, surviving family members
and scientists, award-winning writer and physics professor Frank
Close exposes the truth about a man irrevocably marked by the
advent of the atomic age and the Cold War.
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