Bruno Pontecorvo, Italian physicist and academic (born 1913)

Bruno Pontecorvo

Italian nuclear physicist (1913–1993)

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…