Bruno Pontecorvo
Italian nuclear physicist (1913-1993) · Italy · On the map · Scientists · Died at 80
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.
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The prestigious Pontecorvo Prize was instituted in his memory in 1995.
