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Nuclear physics

Nuclear physics

Tinker, tailor, physicist, spy?

11 Jun 2015
Taken from the June 2015 issue of Physics World

Half-Life: the Divided Life of Bruno Pontecorvo, Physicist or Spy
Frank Close
2015 Basic Books £20.00/$29.99hb 400pp

Cold War questions
Bruno Pontecorvo was the only nuclear physicist who defected from the West after contributing to All

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Simone Turchetti is a historian at the University of Manchester's Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine, UK, e-mail simone.turchetti@manchester.ac.uk
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