Half Life: The disappearance of Bruno Pontecorvo with Frank Close
b"In 1950, Bruno Pontecorvo, one of Britain's brightest atomic physicists, disappeared without trace. He re-surfaced six years later: in the USSR. In this talk, based on unprecedented access to archives, letters, surviving family members and scientists,\\xa0Frank Close\\xa0exposes the truth of Pontecorvo\\u2019s life behind the Iron Curtain, and reveals why he went so suddenly.\\n\\nFrank Close is a particle physicist, and author.\\xa0He is Professor of Physics at the University of Oxford, and has previously been\\xa0Head of the Theoretical Physics Division at the Rutherford\\xa0Appleton Laboratory and Head of Communications and Public Education\\xa0at\\xa0CERN.\\nHe has written several books, including\\xa0Antimatter, Neutrino\\xa0and\\xa0The very short introduction to particle physics.\\xa0https://twitter.com/closefrank\\n\\nCheck out our website: http://www.rigb.org/\\nTwitter: https://twitter.com/Ri_Science\\nYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/TheRoyalInstitution\\nAnd Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/TheRoyalInstitution"