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Half Life: The Divided Life of Bruno Pontecorvo, Physicist or Spy by Frank Close (Paperback, 2015)

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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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PublisherOneworld Publications

ISBN-139781780747460

eBay Product ID (ePID)214593541

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Book TitleHalf Life: the Divided Life of Bruno Pontecorvo, Physicist or Spy

Number of Pages400 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2015

TopicGovernment, Physics

GenreBiographies & True Stories

TypeTextbook

AuthorFrank Close

FormatPaperback

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Item Height198 mm

Item Width129 mm

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Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom

Title_AuthorFrank Close

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by james22brando
13 Jun, 2019
Half life
A truly great read A fascinating study of a great scientist who was forced into exile in the Soviet Union through innuendo and accusations and yet nothing to substantiate that he was a spy at all emerged
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by katthoma_6
27 Feb, 2020
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