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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Turchetti, Simone
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Italiano
Published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2012.
Subjects:
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.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The silent quake
  • The training of a nuclear physicist
  • Neutrons for peace and neutrons for war
  • Under surveillance
  • Ten million reasons to disappear
  • Play it up or down? : confronting the Pontecorvo affair
  • A political motive
  • Bruno Maximovich and Professor Pontecorvo
  • Conclusions: the noisy echo of secrecy.

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