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

Close, Frank

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ISBN 10: 1780745818 ISBN 13: 9781780745817

Casa editrice: Oneworld Publications, 2015

Riassunto

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.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Oneworld Publications
• Data di pubblicazione: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1780745818
• ISBN 13: 9781780745817
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 400