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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Bruno Pontecorvo has received more than 226,528 page views. His biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 30 in 2019). Bruno Pontecorvo is the 325th most popular physicist (up from 326th in 2019), the 1,496th most popular biography from Italy (up from 1,597th in 2019) and the 12th most popular Italian Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Bruno Pontecorvo ranks 325 out of 851. Before him are William Whewell, John C. Mather, Kenneth G. Wilson, Henri Pitot, Samuel C. C. Ting, and Thomas Johann Seebeck. After him are John B. Goodenough, Luis Walter Alvarez, Daniel C. Tsui, Félix Savart, Joseph Swan, and Pierre Louis Dulong.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1913, Bruno Pontecorvo ranks 68. Before him are Luz Long, Edward Gierek, Bill Shankly, Heinz Linge, Sergey Mikhalkov, and Robert Adler. After him are Nicolás Gómez Dávila, Israel Gelfand, Méret Oppenheim, Benjamin Bloom, Yasuo Suzuki, and Mark Felt. Among people deceased in 1993, Bruno Pontecorvo ranks 53. Before him are György Sárosi, Kakuei Tanaka, Lucia Popp, Hans Baur, Yuri Lotman, and Helen Hayes. After him are Leonid Gaidai, Dinmukhamed Kunaev, Tofiq Bahramov, Léo Ferré, Adelaide Hall, and Rahmon Nabiyev.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Bruno Pontecorvo ranks 1,496 out of 5,161. Before him are Bernardino Ramazzini (1633), Domenico di Pace Beccafumi (1486), Julia Flavia (64), Prince Amedeo, Duke of Aosta (1898), Pierre Napoléon Bonaparte (1815), and Antipope Benedict X (1048). After him are Carlo Maria Giulini (1914), Marco Materazzi (1973), Giorgio Basta (1550), Massimiliano Allegri (1967), Lucius Junius Gallio Annaeanus (-3), and Stefano di Giovanni (1392).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Italy

Among physicists born in Italy, Bruno Pontecorvo ranks 12. Before him are Emilio Segrè (1905), Francesco Maria Grimaldi (1618), Carlo Rubbia (1934), Ettore Majorana (1906), Giovanni Battista Venturi (1746), and Giorgio Parisi (1948). After him are Galileo Ferraris (1847), Carlo Matteucci (1811), Fabiola Gianotti (1960), Federico Faggin (1941), Bruno Rossi (1905), and Giovanni Battista Amici (1786).

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