Award for spy
An Italian-born Soviet spy, Bruno Pontecorvo, has been awarded the Order of the October Revolution for his work in physics, the Tass news agency reports. The award had been made to celebrate his seventieth birthday. Pontecorvo worked at Britain’s atomic research base at Harwell, near Oxford, before defecting while on holiday in Moscow in 1950. He al<jo worked in Canady, where he was a pioneer in, the field of neutron physics.—Moscow.
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Press, 25 August 1983, Page 16
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