Talk:Bruno Pontecorvo

bruno pontecorvo's wife/wives
It is claimed on the wiki page for Bruno Pontecorvo that he had two wives, one a Georgian named Rodam Amiredzhibi. Do you know where the source for this claim is? I am researching his life and would appreciate anyone who can clarify this question as I can only find evidence of one wife (Marianne). The person who made that particular entry did so on 19 April 2011 just after one of your edits, so I hope that you might already have noticed this particular edit. The name Rodam Amiredzhibi is very specific, so there may have been some relationship between them but not formal marriage. If anyone can enlighten me I would be grateful. I am reluctant to remove the claim until absolutely sure. Feel free to contact me at (Redacted) 86.26.57.40 (talk) 20:36, 25 August 2011 (UTC)
 * Please see the discussion on this matter at the talk page in the Russian Wikipedia. - Ace111 (talk) 22:28, 5 January 2014 (UTC)
 * For those who don't read Russian, Rodam Amiredzhibi was his mistress. They never married. Hawkeye7 (talk) 10:07, 25 April 2016 (UTC)

Was Pontecorvo an agent?
Was Pontekorvo a soviet agent indeed? I really doubt. He embraced the communism for sure. The american government was suspicious about him. But we can understand why. All people could be enemies in those years.

even later no allegation of spying or of transferring of secrets to the Soviets has ever been made against him?
Its rather hard to reconcile that assertion from the "Defection" section with "Pontecorvo was also a Soviet agent.[3]" William M. Connolley (talk) 11:00, 15 March 2015 (UTC)
 * It's untrue. I have removed the claim. Hawkeye7 (talk) 10:05, 25 April 2016 (UTC)

21 reactions
Fidecaro wrote, "In particular Bruno made a long list of 21 reactions produced by neutrinos or antineutrinos, clearly marking the reactions forbidden if νe ≠ νμ." This must have been his Italian English for "clearly marking the reactions that were forbidden if νe ≠ νμ." In Pontecorvo's paper, only a few of the 21 reactions are so marked, namely the ones that violate what's now called conservation of electron number and muon number. http://centropontecorvo.df.unipi.it/Articles/Electron_and_muon_neutrinos_Zh_Eksp_Teor_Fiz-1959.pdf

Incidentally, it would be more accurate to say "reactions or pairs of similar reactions". What Pontecorvo noted was that if there were two kinds of neutrinos, one reaction could occur but a similar reaction couldn't. &mdash;JerryFriedman (Talk) 15:58, 21 August 2020 (UTC)

The main illustration is no Bruno Pontecorvo Suggestion
But a (yet) unidentified man at a 1954 physical conference in Italy where Pontecorvo wasn't present, see https://hsm.stackexchange.com/questions/7478/who-was-this-man-who-is-not-bruno-pontecorvo Ain92 (talk) 00:49, 21 January 2021 (UTC)


 * I've switched the image to the one used on the Italian and Russian wikipedias. Hawkeye7   (discuss)  20:39, 22 January 2021 (UTC)