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Bruno Pontecorvo

1913 - 1993

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Bruno Pontecorvo (Italian: [ponteˈkɔrvo]; Russian: Бру́но Макси́мович Понтеко́рво, Bruno Maksimovich Pontecorvo; 22 August 1913 – 24 September 1993) 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 the decay of the muon and on neutrinos. The prestigious Pontecorvo Prize was instituted in his memory in 1995. The fourth of eight children of a wealthy Jewish-Italian family, Pontecorvo studied physics at the Sapienza University, under Fermi, becoming the youngest of his Via Panisperna boys. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Bruno Pontecorvo is the 341st most popular physicist (down from 326th in 2019), the 1,527th most popular biography from Italy (down from 1,496th in 2019) and the 12th most popular Italian Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Bruno Pontecorvo ranks 341 out of 851. Before him are Carl Wieman, Jan Ingenhousz, John B. Goodenough, Fritjof Capra, Robert B. Laughlin, and Thomas Johann Seebeck. After him are Stephen Hales, Giorgio Parisi, Joseph Swan, Jean Léonard Marie Poiseuille, Yakov Zeldovich, and Walther Gerlach.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1913, Bruno Pontecorvo ranks 77. Before him are Gerda Christian, Lloyd Bridges, Benjamin Bloom, Edward Gierek, Robert Adler, and Boris Pahor. After him are Nicolás Gómez Dávila, Sergey Mikhalkov, Roger Caillois, Israel Gelfand, 'Abd al-Ilah, and Méret Oppenheim. Among people deceased in 1993, Bruno Pontecorvo ranks 51. Before him are Muhammad Khan Junejo, Kakuei Tanaka, Hans Baur, György Sárosi, Helen Hayes, and River Phoenix. After him are Dražen Petrović, Don Ameche, Lucia Popp, Rahmon Nabiyev, Leonid Gaidai, and Léo Ferré.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Bruno Pontecorvo ranks 1,527 out of 5,161. Before him are Louis I of Naples (1320), Pierbattista Pizzaballa (1965), Giles of Rome (1243), Prince Louis, Count of Trani (1838), Princess Carolina of Parma (1770), and Stefano di Giovanni (1392). After him are Marco Materazzi (1973), Carlo Blasis (1797), Carlo Maratta (1625), Paolo Boi (1528), Alessandro Stradella (1643), and Coluccio Salutati (1331).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Italy

Among physicists born in Italy, Bruno Pontecorvo ranks 12. Before him are Laura Bassi (1711), Francesco Maria Grimaldi (1618), Ettore Majorana (1906), Carlo Rubbia (1934), Giovanni Battista Venturi (1746), and Giovanni Battista Amici (1786). After him are Giorgio Parisi (1948), Galileo Ferraris (1847), Federico Faggin (1941), Bruno Rossi (1905), Carlo Matteucci (1811), and Gabriele Veneziano (1942).

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