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Bruno Pontecorvo

Bruno Pontecorvo
Bruno Pontecorvo, Italian physicist and academic (d. 1993)

Bruno Pontecorvo was an Italian and Soviet 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. The prestigious Pontecorvo Prize was instituted in his memory in 1995.

22 August 1913

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