X-Nico

2 unusual facts about Bruno Pontecorvo


Lev Vasilevsky

Bruno Pontecorvo was the conduit supplying the atomic secrets from Enrico Fermi.

Solar neutrino problem

However, in 1968 Pontecorvo proposed that if neutrinos had mass, then they could change from one type to another.


I ragazzi di via Panisperna

The story is inspired by a real life fact and set in the 1930s when, at the Institute of Physics of Via Panisperna, in Rome, physicist Enrico Fermi managed to involve a group of brilliant young students—Emilio, Bruno, Edoardo and Ettore (respectively, Emilio Segrè, Bruno Pontecorvo, Edoardo Amaldi and Ettore Majorana, all of whom became famous scientists)—forming a working group committed to scientific research who would achieve great discoveries in the field of nuclear physics.


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