Half Life : The Divided Life of Bruno Pontecorvo, Physicist or Spy

Name: Half Life
Brand: Oneworld Publications
SKU: 9781780747460
Price: 6100 KES
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ISBN: 9781780747460

by Frank Close

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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

Product Classification: Biography: historical, political & military Biography: science, technology & medicine Biography: historical, political and military Biography: science, technology and medicine

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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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