Bruno Pontecorvo
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Gender | Male |
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Death | 31 years ago |
Date of birth | August 22,1913 |
Zodiac sign | Leo |
Born | Marina Di Pisa |
Italy | |
Date of died | September 24,1993 |
Died | Dubna |
Russia | |
Place of burial | Protestant Cemetery, Rome, Italy |
Children | Gil Pontecorvo |
Tito Pontecorvo | |
Antonio Pontecorvo | |
Siblings | Gillo Pontecorvo |
Guido Pontecorvo | |
David Maraoni | |
Giuliana Talbet | |
Paolo Pontecorvo | |
Anna Newton | |
Laura Coppa | |
Job | Physicist |
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ID | 603803 |
Bruno Pontecorvo Life story
Bruno Pontecorvo was an Italian nuclear physicist, an early assistant of Enrico Fermi and the author of numerous studies in high energy physics, especially on neutrinos. A convinced communist, he defected to the Soviet Union in 1950, where he continued his research on the decay of the muon and on neutrinos.