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

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Author / Creator:Turchetti, Simone.
Uniform title:Caso Pontecorvo. English
Imprint:Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2012.
Description:1 online resource (292 pages) : illustrations
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11123583
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ISBN:9780226816661
0226816664
1283436841
9781283436847
9780226816647
0226816648
9786613436849
6613436844
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
English.
Print version record.
Summary: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.
Other form:Print version: Turchetti, Simone. Caso Pontecorvo. English. Pontecorvo affair. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2012 9780226816647
Standard no.:9786613436849

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