The Pontecorvo Affair: A Cold War Defection and Nuclear Physics - Simone Turchetti - Google Books

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In the fall of 1950, newspapers around the world reported that the Italian-born nuclear physicist Bruno Pontecorvo and his family had mysteriously disappeared while returning to Britain from a holiday trip. Because Pontecorvo was known to be an expert…