Half Life : The Divided Life of Bruno Pontecorvo, Physicist or Spy
by
Frank Close
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
1780747462
ISBN-13
9781780747460
Publisher
Oneworld Publications
Imprint
Oneworld Publications
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Sep 3rd, 2015
Print length
400 Pages
Weight
374 grams
Dimensions
13.10 x 19.70 x 3.30 cms
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A true-life tale of nuclear secrets, Soviet spies and MI5
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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