The Pontecorvo affair : a cold war defection and nuclear physics /

In the fall of 1950, newspapers around the world reported that the Italian-born nuclear physicist Bruno Pontecorvo and his family had mysteriously disappeared while returning to Britain from a holiday trip. Because Pontecorvo was known to be an expert working for the UK Atomic Energy Research Establ...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Turchetti, Simone
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Italiano
Publicado: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2012.
Temas:
Pontekorvo, B. > (Bruno), > 1913-1993.
Nuclear physicists > Soviet Union > Biography.
Nuclear physicists > Italy > Biography.
Spies > Soviet Union > Biography.
Spies > Italy > Biography.
Physiciens nucléaires > URSS > Biographies.
Physiciens nucléaires > Italie > Biographies.
Espions > URSS > Biographies.
Espions > Italie > Biographies.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Science & Technology.
SCIENCE > Energy.
SCIENCE > Mechanics > General.
SCIENCE > Physics > General.
Nuclear physicists.
Spies.
Italy.
Soviet Union.
Biography
Biographies.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario:In the fall of 1950, newspapers around the world reported that the Italian-born nuclear physicist Bruno Pontecorvo and his family had mysteriously disappeared while returning to Britain from a holiday trip. Because Pontecorvo was known to be an expert working for the UK Atomic Energy Research Establishment, this raised immediate concern for the safety of atomic secrets, especially when it became known in the following months that he had defected to the Soviet Union. Was Pontecorvo a spy? Did he know and pass sensitive information about the bomb to Soviet experts? At the time, nuclear scientist.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (292 pages) : illustrations
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780226816661
0226816664
1283436841
9781283436847
9786613436849
6613436844

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