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PHYSICIST

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 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Bruno Pontecorvo has received more than 212,515 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). Bruno Pontecorvo is the 326th most popular physicist (down from 310th in 2019), the 1,602nd most popular biography from Italy (down from 1,540th in 2019) and the 12th most popular Italian Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Bruno Pontecorvo ranks 326 out of 717. Before him are Qian Xuesen, Christoph Scheiner, John Mauchly, Yakov Zeldovich, James Jeans, and Frank Wilczek. After him are Gaston Planté, Jean Charles Athanase Peltier, Pascual Jordan, August Kundt, Félix Savart, and Johann Wilhelm Hittorf.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1913, Bruno Pontecorvo ranks 82. Before him are Loretta Young, Eddie Constantine, Mary Leakey, Heinz Kohut, Wolfgang Lüth, and Shih Kien. After him are Pierre Werner, Israel Gelfand, Marika Rökk, Amrita Sher-Gil, Johannes Steinhoff, and Haxhi Lleshi. Among people deceased in 1993, Bruno Pontecorvo ranks 55. Before him are Stewart Granger, Leonid Gaidai, Léo Ferré, Kakuei Tanaka, Eddie Constantine, and Helen Hayes. After him are Matthew Ridgway, Meliton Kantaria, Ishirō Honda, Rahmon Nabiyev, György Sárosi, and Kenneth E. Boulding.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Bruno Pontecorvo ranks 1,602 out of 4,668. Before him are Saint Marcella (325), Moses Montefiore (1784), Ruggero Deodato (1939), Guido of Siena (1230), Princess Alice of Parma (1849), and Princess Maria Pia of Bourbon-Parma (1934). After him are Eduardo De Filippo (1900), Giovanni Andrea Doria (1539), Isabella of Savoy (1591), Aistulf (null), John of Montecorvino (1246), and Frank Nitti (1886).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Italy

Among physicists born in Italy, Bruno Pontecorvo ranks 12. Before him are Emilio Segrè (1905), Giorgio Parisi (1948), Francesco Maria Grimaldi (1618), Ettore Majorana (1906), Giovanni Battista Venturi (1746), and Carlo Rubbia (1934). After him are Galileo Ferraris (1847), Giovanni Aldini (1762), Gabriele Veneziano (1942), Carlo Matteucci (1811), Federico Faggin (1941), and Giovanni Battista Amici (1786).

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