Bruno Pontecorvo
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Italian nuclear physicist
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Why Is Bruno Pontecorvo Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Bruno Pontecorvo was an Italian and Soviet 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 the decay of the muon and on neutrinos. The prestigious Pontecorvo Prize was instituted in his memory in 1995.
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