Half Life - The Divided Life of Bruno Pontecorvo, Physicist or Spy (Paperback)

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.

General

Imprint:	Oneworld Publications
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	September 2015
Authors:	Frank Close
Dimensions:	198 x 129 x 28mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - B-format
Pages:	400
ISBN-13:	978-1-78074-746-0
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Biography & autobiography > Historical, political & military Books > Science & Mathematics > Physics > General Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > International relations > Espionage & secret services Books > Biography > Historical, political & military
LSN:	1-78074-746-2
Barcode:	9781780747460

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