Half-Life: The Divided Life of Bruno Pontecorvo, Physicist or Spy पीडीएफ

फ्रैंक क्लोज़ का जन्म 1945 ई. में पीटरबरो में हुआ था, उन्हें ओबीई से सम्मानित किया गया था, और वे ऑक्सफोर्ड विश्वविद्यालय में भौतिकी के प्रोफेसर और एक्सेटर कॉलेज के फेलो हैं। वह कई बेस्टसेलिंग पुस्तकों के लेखक हैं जैसे: द लूसिफर लिगेसी, पार्टिकल फिजिक्स: ए वेरी शॉर्ट इंट्रोडक्शन, द न्यू कॉस्मिक ओनियन, द पार्टिकल एक्सप्लोजन, द एंड, एक्सट्रीमली थॉर्नी, और "द पार्टिकल सागा" और "एंटीमैटर"। उन्होंने कई उपलब्धियां हासिल कीं, जिनमें शामिल हैं: - अधिकारी के पद पर ब्रिटिश साम्राज्य का आदेश। 1991 में भौतिकी संस्थान की फैलोशिप। 1996 में केल्विन पुरस्कार। - ब्रिटिश एसोसिएशन फॉर द एडवांसमेंट ऑफ साइंस 1993-99 के उपाध्यक्ष। - 2003 से इंटरनेशनल फिजिक्स ओलंपियाड में ब्रिटिश टीम के प्रमुख। - 2013 में माइकल फैराडे अवार्ड।

Half-Life: The Divided Life of Bruno Pontecorvo, Physicist or Spy पीडीएफ फ्रैंक क्लोज़

It was at the height of the Cold War, in the summer of 1950, when Bruno Pontecorvo mysteriously vanished behind the Iron Curtain. Who was he, and what caused him to disappear? Was he simply a physicist, or also a spy and communist radical? A protégé of Enrico Fermi, Pontecorvo was one of the most promising nuclear physicists in the world. He spent years hunting for the Higgs boson of his day—the neutrino—a nearly massless particle thought to be essential to the process of particle decay. His work on the Manhattan Project helped to usher in the nuclear age, and confirmed his reputation as a brilliant physicist. Why, then, would he disappear as he stood on the cusp of true greatness, perhaps even the Nobel Prize? In Half-Life, physicist and historian Frank Close offers a heretofore untold history of Pontecorvo’s life, based on unprecedented access to Pontecorvo’s friends and family and the Russian scientists with whom he would later work. Close takes a microscope to Pontecorvo’s life, combining a thorough biography of one of the most important scientsts of the twentieth century with the drama of Cold War espionage. With all the elements of a Cold War thriller—classified atomic research, an infamous double agent, a possible kidnapping by Soviet operatives—Half-Life is a history of nuclear physics at perhaps its most powerful: when it created the bomb.physics at perhaps its most powerful: when it created the bomb.