Half-life - 9780465069989
Un libro in lingua di Frank Close edito da Basic Books, 2015
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Bruno Pontecorvo dedicated his career to hunting for the Higgs boson of his day: the neutrino, a nearly massless particle considered essential to the process of nuclear fission. His work on the Manhattan project under Enrico Fermi confirmed his reputation as a brilliant physicist and helped usher in the nuclear age. He should have won a Nobel Prize, but late in the summer of 1950 he vanished. At the height of the Cold War, Pontecorvo had disappeared behind the Iron Curtain.
In Half-Life, physicist and historian Frank Close offers a heretofore untold history of Pontecorvo’s life, based on unprecedented access to his friends, family, and colleagues. With all the elements of a Cold War thrillerclassified atomic research, an infamous double agent, a kidnapping by Soviet operativesHalf-Life is a history of particle physics at perhaps its most powerful: when it created the bomb.
In Half-Life, physicist and historian Frank Close offers a heretofore untold history of Pontecorvo’s life, based on unprecedented access to his friends, family, and colleagues. With all the elements of a Cold War thrillerclassified atomic research, an infamous double agent, a kidnapping by Soviet operativesHalf-Life is a history of particle physics at perhaps its most powerful: when it created the bomb.
Informazioni bibliografiche
- Titolo del Libro in lingua: Half-life
- Sottotitolo: The Divided Life of Bruno Pontecorvo, Physicist or Spy
- Lingua: English
- Autore: Frank Close
- Editore: Basic Books
- Collana: Basic Books (Hardcover)
- Data di Pubblicazione: 03 Febbraio '15
- Genere: BIOGRAPHY and AUTOBIOGRAPHY
- Pagine: 378
- Dimensioni mm: 234 x 155 x 0
- EAN-13: 9780465069989