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Bruno Pontecorvo
Bruno Pontecorvo was an Italian–Russian 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.
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science · Italian nuclear physicist (1913–1993) · physicist · nuclear physicist · scientist · also Bruno Pontecorvo, Bruno Maksimovich Pontekorvo, Pontecorvo
Born 22 August 1913 · Died 24 September 1993 · Q453557
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2025· 1 entry
2015· 1 entry
Physics World: Was Bruno Pontecorvo a spy?
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2006· 1 entry
Moscow historical society Moskultprog unveiled an artistic plaque celebrating Pontecorvo's Moscow house at 9 Tverskaya Street
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1998· 1 entry
And later confirmed by other experiments
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1995· 1 entry
In recognition of his scientific merits, the prestigious Pontecorvo Prize has been instituted by the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research
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1993· 1 entry
Died 1993-09-24.
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1978· 1 entry
When he travelled to Italy for celebrations of Amaldi's 70th birthday
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1959· 1 entry
A powerful accelerator (that was never built) was being designed, and he began considering experiments that could be performed with it
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1958· 2 entries
That supernovae would produce intense bursts of neutrinos
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That supernovae would produce intense bursts of neutrinos, which was confirmed in 1987 when Supernova SN1987A was detected by neutrino detectors
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1956· 1 entry
“Question of Parity Conservation in Weak Interactions”
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1955· 2 entries
Appeared in public at a press conference where he explained to the world the motivations of his choice to leave the West and work in the Soviet Union
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For which Reines won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1995
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1953· 1 entry
Membership in the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in 1955 and the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union in 1958, and two Orders of Lenin
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1952· 1 entry
Pontecorvo's potential role in the transfer of nuclear secrets to Russia was discussed in American newspapers
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1950· 2 entries
Where he continued his research on the decay of the muon and on neutrinos
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Worked at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR) in Dubna
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1949· 3 entries
Other Via Panisperna boys, particularly Emilio Segrè, began to press their claim over patents relating to the behaviour of slow neutrons, which were at the heart of nuclear reactor—and nuclear weapon—design
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Where he worked for the Atomic Energy Research Establishment at Harwell
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After Pontecorvo had left
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1945· 1 entry
Pontecorvo noted that a neutrino striking a chlorine nucleus could transform it into unstable argon-37 that emits, with a 34 days half-life, after a K-capture reaction, a 2
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1943· 1 entry
Joined the British Tube Alloys team at the Montreal Laboratory in Canada
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1938· 1 entry
Followed by Giovanni, Laura and Anna in 1939, while Gillo joined Pontecorvo in Paris
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1937· 1 entry
To apply for a tenured position at the University of Rome to stay in Paris
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1936· 1 entry
Where he conducted research under Irène and Frédéric Joliot-Curie
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1934· 3 entries
Proposed his theory of beta decay which explained that the electrons emitted from the nucleus were created by the decay of a neutron into a proton, an electron, and a neutrino
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Pontecorvo contributed to Fermi's famous experiment showing the properties of slow neutrons that led the way to the discovery of nuclear fission
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Participated in Fermi's famous experiment showing the properties of slow neutrons that led the way to the discovery of nuclear fission
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1930· 1 entry
In order to explain undetected energy that escaped during beta decay so that the law of conservation of energy was not violated
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1921· 1 entry
And Anna, who was born in 1924, and a younger brother, Giovanni, who was born in 1926
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1919· 1 entry
And is best known as the director of The Battle of Algiers
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1913· 1 entry
Born 1913-08-22.
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1909· 1 entry
Became an engineer who worked on radar during World War II
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