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Bruno Pontecorvo

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Gender Male
Death30 years ago
Date of birth August 22,1913
Zodiac sign Leo
Born Marina Di Pisa
Italy
Date of died September 24,1993
DiedDubna
Russia
Place of burialProtestant Cemetery, Rome, Italy
ChildrenGil 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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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.

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