Half-life : the divided life of Bruno Pontecorvo, physicist or spy
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Published
New York, NY : Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group, [2015].
ISBN
9780465069989, 0465069983
Physical Desc
xix, 378 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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Location | Call Number | Status |
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Coventry - Adult Non-Fiction | 530.092 CLO | On Shelf |
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Published
New York, NY : Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group, [2015].
Format
Book
Language
English
ISBN
9780465069989, 0465069983
Notes
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-366) and index.
Description
Bruno Pontecorvo dedicated his career to hunting for the Higgs boson of his day-- the neutrino, a nearly massless particle considered essential to the process of nuclear fission. His work on the Manhattan project under Enrico Fermi confirmed his reputation as a brilliant physicist and helped usher in the nuclear age. He should have won a Nobel Prize, but late in the summer of 1950 he vanished. At the height of the Cold War, Pontecorvo had disappeared behind the Iron Curtain. In Half-Life, physicist and historian Frank Close offers a heretofore untold history of Pontecorvo's life, based on unprecedented access to his friends, family, and colleagues. With all the elements of a Cold War thriller-- classified atomic research, an infamous double agent, a kidnapping by Soviet operatives-- Half-Life is a history of particle physics at perhaps its most powerful: when it created the bomb.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Close, F. E. (2015). Half-life: the divided life of Bruno Pontecorvo, physicist or spy . Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Close, F. E.. 2015. Half-life: The Divided Life of Bruno Pontecorvo, Physicist or Spy. Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Close, F. E.. Half-life: The Divided Life of Bruno Pontecorvo, Physicist or Spy Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group, 2015.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Close, F. E.. Half-life: The Divided Life of Bruno Pontecorvo, Physicist or Spy Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group, 2015.
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