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

弗兰克·克洛斯于公元 1945 年出生于彼得堡，他被授予 OBE，他是牛津大学物理学教授，埃克塞特学院研究员。他是几本畅销书的作者，例如：《路西法的遗产》、《粒子物理学：非常简短的介绍》、《新宇宙洋葱》、《粒子爆炸》、《终结》、《极度棘手》以及《粒子传奇》和《反物质》。 他取得了多项成就，包括： - 大英帝国军官勋章。 1991年物理研究所会士。 1996年开尔文奖。 - 英国科学促进会副主席 1993-99。 - 自 2003 年起担任国际物理奥林匹克竞赛英国队的负责人。 - 2013 年迈克尔法拉第奖。

Half-Life: The Divided Life of Bruno Pontecorvo, Physicist or Spy pdf 弗兰克·克洛斯

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.