{"product_id":"half-life-frank-close-9781780747460","title":"Half Life: The Divided Life of Bruno Potecorvo, Physicist and Spy","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe memo landed on Kim Philby's desk in Washington, DC, in July 1950. Three months later, Bruno Pontecorvo, a physicist at Harwell, Britain's atomic energy lab, disappeared without a trace. When he re-surfaced six years later, he was on the other side of the Iron Curtain.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOne of the most brilliant scientists of his generation, Pontecorvo was privy to many secrets: he had worked on the Anglo-Canadian arm of the Manhattan Project, and quietly discovered a way to find the uranium coveted by nuclear powers. Yet when he disappeared MI5 insisted he was not a threat. Now, based on unprecedented access to archives, letters, surviving family members and scientists, award-winning writer and physics professor Frank Close exposes the truth about a man irrevocably marked by the advent of the atomic age and the Cold War.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Frank Close\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1780747462\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781780747460\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e ONEWorld Publications\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/03\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 400\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.86lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.81h x 5.06w x 0.82d","brand":"Frank Close","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44077294584063,"sku":"9781780747460","price":48.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_9243a843-445f-4c5a-bf29-ad9dea4b6eb2.jpg?v=1685469228","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/half-life-frank-close-9781780747460","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}