Half-Life: The Divided Life of Bruno Pontecorvo, Physicist or Spy

by Frank Close · 2015

A biography of nuclear physicist Bruno Pontecorvo and his scientific work during the Cold War.

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Freeman Dyson recommends Frank Close’s Half-Life in his Physics Today interview.

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