Bruno Pontecorvo

Bruno Pontecorvo was an Italian and Soviet 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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General Info

Male

Date of Birth

August 22nd, 1913

Age

111

Birth Place

Italy, Tuscany

Date of Death

September 24th, 1993

Died Aged