The Pontecorvo Affair: A Cold War Defection and Nuclear Physics

by Simone Turchetti

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... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226816648
• ISBN13: 9780226816647
• Release Date: February 2012
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.0"