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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 and surviving family members and scientists, award-winning writer and physics professor Frank Close pieces together an answer to whether Pontecorvo's defection did indeed bring an end to a life of spycraft -and exposes the truth of a man irrevocably marked by the advent of the atomic age and the Cold War...
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Half Life, Frank Close
- Lingua
- Pubblicato
- 2015
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- Titolo
- Half Life
- Lingua
- Inglese
- Autori
- Frank Close
- Editore
- Oneworld Publications
- Pubblicato
- 2015
- Formato
- In brossura
- Pagine
- 400
- ISBN10
- 1780747462
- ISBN13
- 9781780747460
- Serie
- Tag
- Saggistica, Tema stórico, Storie vere, Biografie, Scienza e Matematica, Scienze Naturali, Autobiografie e memorie, Scienza, Fisica, Spionaggio
- Valutazione
- 4,1 su 5
- Descrizione
- 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 and surviving family members and scientists, award-winning writer and physics professor Frank Close pieces together an answer to whether Pontecorvo's defection did indeed bring an end to a life of spycraft -and exposes the truth of a man irrevocably marked by the advent of the atomic age and the Cold War...