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Nuclear Forces : The Making of the Physicist Hans Bethe.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 2012Copyright date: ©2012Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (602 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780674065536
Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Nuclear ForcesDDC classification:
  • 530.092 B
LOC classification:
  • QC774
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- 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.
Summary: What drove Nobel-winning physicist Hans Bethe, head of Theoretical Physics at Los Alamos during the Manhattan Project, to later renounce the weaponry he had worked so tirelessly to create? That is one of the questions answered by Nuclear Forces, a riveting biography of Bethe's early life and development as both a scientist and a man of principle.
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Intro -- 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.

What drove Nobel-winning physicist Hans Bethe, head of Theoretical Physics at Los Alamos during the Manhattan Project, to later renounce the weaponry he had worked so tirelessly to create? That is one of the questions answered by Nuclear Forces, a riveting biography of Bethe's early life and development as both a scientist and a man of principle.

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