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Professor Pontecorvo, concerned scientist or notorious spy? Science, secrecy, and identity in the atomic age

Simone Turchetti: The Pontecorvo affair: A cold war defection and nuclear physics. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2012, 292pp, $45 HB

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Notes

  1. The Pontecorvo Affair is a revised edition of Turchetti 2007, which is based on Turchetti 2003, winner of the BSHS Singer Prize 2002.

  2. The story of the slow neutron patent was uncovered by the author in Turchetti (2006a, b).

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Monaldi, D. Professor Pontecorvo, concerned scientist or notorious spy? Science, secrecy, and identity in the atomic age. Metascience 22, 599–602 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11016-013-9769-3

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