Nuclear forces : the making of the physicist Hans Bethe / Silvan S. Schweber.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schweber, S. S. (Silvan S.)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bethe, Hans A. (Hans Albrecht), 1906-2005.

Bethe, Hans A.

Bethe, Hans A. (Hans Albrecht), 1906-2005--Political and social views.

Manhattan Project (U.S.).

Nuclear physicists--United States--Biography.

Nuclear physicists.

Manhattan Project (U.S.)--Biography.

Atomic bomb--Moral and ethical aspects--United States.

Atomic bomb.

Nuclear weapons--Moral and ethical aspects--United States.

Nuclear weapons.

Nuclear warfare--Moral and ethical aspects--United States.

Nuclear warfare.

Nuclear warfare--Moral and ethical aspects.

Nuclear weapons--Moral and ethical aspects.

Atomic bomb--Moral and ethical aspects.

Political and social views.

United States.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

viii, 579 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2012.

Summary:

German-American physicist Hans Bethe (1906-2005) was among the young generation of scientists of the late 1920s and early 1930s who worked on wide-ranging applications and extensions of quantum mechanics after its initial formulation by such foundational figures as Werner Heisenberg and Erwin Schrödinger. He also, as head of the Theoretical Division of the Los Alamos Laboratory during World War II, was centrally involved in the early history of nuclear weapons and, still later, won a Nobel Prize for his explanation of stellar nucleosynthesis. In this intellectual biography, Schweber (history of science, Harvard U.) examines Bethe's career within the broader context of developments in theoretical physics during his lifetime and in relation to the institutions and networks that made his career possible. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Contents:

Growing Up

Maturing

Becoming Bethe

Beyond the Doctorate : 1928-1933

England, 1933-1935

Hilde Levi

Cornell University

The Happy Thirties

Rose Ewald Bethe

Conclusion: Past and Future

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:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780674065871

0674065875

OCLC:

758383322