Nuclear Forces : : The Making of the Physicist Hans Bethe / / Silvan S. Schweber.

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• VerfasserIn: Schweber, Silvan S.,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2012]; ©2012
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (518 p.) :; 21 halftones

On the fiftieth anniversary of Hiroshima, Nobel-winning physicist Hans Bethe called on his fellow scientists to stop working on weapons of mass destruction. What drove Bethe, the head of Theoretical Physics at Los Alamos during the Manhattan Project, to renounce the weaponry he had once worked so ti...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Introduction
• 1. Growing Up
• 2. Maturing
• 3. Becoming Bethe
• 4. Beyond the Doctorate: 1928–1933
• 5. England, 1933–1935
• 6. Hilde Levi
• 7. Cornell University
• 8. The Happy Thirties
• 9. Rose Ewald Bethe
• Conclusion: Past and Future
• Appendixes A. The Bethe Family Genealogy. B. Courses Taken at Frankfurt University. C. A Brief History of the Genesis of Quantum Mechanics. D. Courses Taken at Munich University. E. Bethe’s Doctoral Thesis. F. The Habilitationsschrift Defense. Notes. References. Acknowledgments. Index
• Appendix A. The Bethe Family Genealogy
• Appendix B. Courses Taken at Frankfurt University
• Appendix C. A Brief History of the Genesis of Quantum Mechanics
• Appendix D. Courses Taken at Munich University
• Appendix E. Bethe’s Doctoral Thesis
• Appendix F. The Habilitationsschrift Defense
• Notes
• References
• Acknowledgments
• Index