Half Life
| Autor: | Close, Frank |
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| EAN: | 9781780747460 |
| Sachgruppe: | Geschichte Physik, Astronomie |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Seitenzahl: | 400 |
| Produktart: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| Veröffentlichungsdatum: | 03.09.2015 |
| Untertitel: | The Divided Life of Bruno Potecorvo, Physicist and Spy |
| Schlagworte: | Atombombe - Atomwaffe Englische Bücher / Geschichte, Kulturgeschichte, Zeitgeschichte Geheimdienst / Spionage Kalter Krieg Krieg / Kalter Krieg Spion Spionage - Spionageabwehr |
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The memo landed on Kim Philby's desk in Washington, DC, in July 1950. Three months later, Bruno Pontecorvo, a physicist at Harwell, Britain's atomic energy lab, disappeared without a trace. When he re-surfaced six years later, he was on the other side of the Iron Curtain. One of the most brilliant scientists of his generation, Pontecorvo was privy to many secrets: he had worked on the Anglo-Canadian arm of the Manhattan Project, and quietly discovered a way to find the uranium coveted by nuclear powers. Yet when he disappeared MI5 insisted he was not a threat. Now, based on unprecedented access to archives, letters, surviving family members and scientists, award-winning writer and physics professor Frank Close exposes the truth about a man irrevocably marked by the advent of the atomic age and the Cold War.
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