# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/bruno-pontecorvo
# Generated: 2026-08-14T01:35:09.558Z

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name: "Bruno Pontecorvo"
slug: "bruno-pontecorvo"
description: "Bruno Pontecorvo was an Italian–Russian 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."
tagline: "Italian nuclear physicist (1913–1993)"
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country:
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  isoCode: "IT"
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birthDate: "1913-08-22"
deathDate: "1993-09-24"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump