Bruno Pontecorvo
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| Gender | Male |
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| Death | 32 years ago |
| Date of birth | August 22,1913 |
| Zodiac sign | Leo |
| Born | Marina Di Pisa |
| Italy | |
| Date of died | September 24,1993 |
| Died | Dubna |
| Russia | |
| Place of burial | Protestant Cemetery, Rome, Italy |
| Children | Gil Pontecorvo |
| Tito Pontecorvo | |
| Antonio Pontecorvo | |
| Siblings | Gillo Pontecorvo |
| Guido Pontecorvo | |
| David Maraoni | |
| Giuliana Talbet | |
| Paolo Pontecorvo | |
| Anna Newton | |
| Laura Coppa | |
| Job | Physicist |
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| ID | 603803 |
Bruno Pontecorvo Life story
Bruno Pontecorvo was an Italian 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.