The 108th birthday of Bruno Pontecorvo
In his interview to the TASS Russian News Agency, professor Takaaki Kajita called Bruno Pontecorvo his predecessor. “His ideas became a basis for my research, we just confirmed the correctness of this theory through practice... Bruno Pontecorvo was the first who presented the grounds for existence of neutrino oscillations and for the fact that neutrinos have masses. This Soviet scientist was a pathfinder and leader.”
Neutrino physics, a scientific direction established by Bruno Pontecorvo, is one of top priority directions of the Dzhelepov Laboratory of Nuclear Problems now. The Baikal Neutrino Telescope is being constructed within it, DLNP scientists are taking an active part in neutrino experiments (DANSS, GERDA, NOvA, Borexino, GEMMA and JUNO) and in other projects significant for world science.
The interior of the study of the scientist, his manuscripts, photographs and personal things are being carefully preserved in the main DLNP building.
In the photograph: B. M. Pontecorvo, Moscow, 1961. Photo from the Archive of the Museum-Study of Bruno Pontecorvo at DLNP.