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December 16, 2013 03:21 pm PST
Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/0QRceilQ7_8/story01.htm
The tale of a 'disappeared'physicist
Growing up in the United States, I never really heard much about high-stakes, dead-of-night defections to the Soviet Union. But here's an interesting one: Bruno Pontecorvo, an Italian nuclear physicist who vanished (along with his whole family) while vacationing in Finland in 1951.Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/0QRceilQ7_8/story01.htm
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