When:
March 5, 2015 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
2015-03-05T19:00:00+00:00
2015-03-05T20:30:00+00:00
Where:
Royal Institution of Great Britain
21 Albemarle Street
Mayfair, London W1S
UK
21 Albemarle Street
Mayfair, London W1S
UK
Cost:
£12/£8
Contact:
In 1950, Bruno Pontecorvo, one of Britain’s brightest atomic physicists, disappeared without trace. He re-surfaced six years later: in the USSR.
In this talk, based on unprecedented access to archives, letters, surviving family members and scientists, Frank Close exposes the truth of Pontecorvo’s life behind the Iron Curtain, and reveals why he went so suddenly.