Codice albumGBB-F-004626

Codice inventarioGBB-F-004626-0000

1950, EDINBURG, GREAT BRITAIN : World Congress of Physicists, he attended Professor Bruno Pontecorvo (indicated by the arrow, photo). Among other recognizable MAX BORN (with the beard, in the penultimate row, center), who in 1954 was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics. Participated in the conference, for the last time, the German-born scientist Klaus Fuchs (fourth from left, front row) that shortly after he was arrested by the British authorities on charges of espionage. The italian physicist BRUNO PONTECORVO (1913 - 1993) was an Italian nuclear physicist, an early assistant of Enrico Fermi and then the author of numerous studies in high energy physics, especially on neutrinos. According to Oleg Gordievsky (the highest-ranking KGB officer ever to defect)and Pavel Sudoplatov (former deputy director of Foreign Intelligence for the Soviet Union), Pontecorvo was also a Soviet agent. He defected to the Soviet Union in 1950, where he continued his research on the decay of the muon and on neutrinos. The prestigious Pontecorvo Prize was instituted in his memory in 1995.

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