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Half-Life : The Divided Life of Bruno Pontecorvo, Physicist or Spy by Frank...
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- Estado
- Personalize
- No
- Type
- CHRONICLE
- Signed
- No
- Narrative Type
- Nonfiction
- Personalized
- No
- Original Language
- English
- Intended Audience
- Adults
- Inscribed
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- Vintage
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- ISBN
- 9780465069989
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Basic Books
ISBN-10
0465069983
ISBN-13
9780465069989
eBay Product ID (ePID)
201660339
Product Key Features
Book Title
Half-Life : the Divided Life of Bruno Pontecorvo, Physicist or Spy
Number of Pages
400 Pages
Language
English
Topic
History, Physics / Nuclear, Science & Technology
Publication Year
2015
Genre
Science, Biography & Autobiography
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.2 in
Item Weight
22.8 Oz
Item Length
9.5 in
Item Width
6.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
Library Journal "Close does an excellent job of describing the personal and professional lives of his subject, as well as the international intelligence community's investigations of Pontecorvo before and after he defected to the Soviet Union. This fascinating and well-researched account will appeal to a wide range of readers, including those interested in World War II and the foundation of the Manhattan Project, the Cold War, particle physics, the process of scientific investigation, and the life of scientists." Publishers Weekly "[A]n intensively researched, engrossing biography that turns up some suspicious behavior and mildly incriminating documents.... Close serves Pontecorvo well in this outstanding biography, illuminating his work as well as the painful political conflicts of his time." Kirkus Reviews "[An] insightful biography.... Close's intense research turns up hints that [Pontecorvo] spied and, warned by other spies, fled to avoid arrest. A fine account, heavy on science and politics, of a long, productive, peripatetic and ultimately inexplicable life." Graham Farmelo, The Guardian (UK) "Frank Close brings a fresh perspective to the story.... [I]mpressively researched."
Dewey Decimal
530.092 B
Synopsis
It was at the height of the Cold War, in the summer of 1950, when Bruno Pontecorvo mysteriously vanished behind the Iron Curtain. Who was he, and what caused him to disappear? Was he simply a physicist, or also a spy and communist radical? A protege of Enrico Fermi, Pontecorvo was one of the most promising nuclear physicists in the world. He spent years hunting for the Higgs boson of his day -- the neutrino -- a nearly massless particle thought to be essential to the process of particle decay. His work on the Manhattan Project helped to usher in the nuclear age, and confirmed his reputation as a brilliant physicist. Why, then, would he disappear as he stood on the cusp of true greatness, perhaps even the Nobel Prize? In Half-Life , physicist and historian Frank Close offers a heretofore untold history of Pontecorvo's life, based on unprecedented access to Pontecorvo's friends and family and the Russian scientists with whom he would later work. Close takes a microscope to Pontecorvo's life, combining a thorough biography of one of the most important scientists of the twentieth century with the drama of Cold War espionage. With all the elements of a Cold War thriller -- classified atomic research, an infamous double agent, a possible kidnapping by Soviet operatives -- Half-Life is a history of nuclear physics at perhaps its most powerful: when it created the bomb. Physics at perhaps its most powerful: when it created the bomb.
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