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The Bethe-Peierls correspondence / Sabine Lee.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bethe, Hans A. (Hans Albrecht), 1906-2005.
- Standardized Title:
- Correspondence. English & German. Selections
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Nuclear physicists--Correspondence.
- Nuclear physicists.
- Bethe, Hans A. (Hans Albrecht), 1906-2005--Correspondence.
- Bethe, Hans A.
- Peierls, Rudolf E. (Rudolf Ernst), 1907-1995--Correspondence.
- Peierls, Rudolf E.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (520 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Hackensack, NJ : World Scientific, c2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This book contains the correspondence between Hans Bethe and Rudolf Peierls, two first-rate scientists who made important contributions to 20th century physics. The document collection is of great significance for our understanding of 20th century physics, but it also illustrates many interesting political and social aspects such as the life of émigré scientists from Nazi-Germany on both sides of the Atlantic and the political activities of nuclear scientists after the development of the atomic bomb. Furthermore, the letters exchanged between Bethe and Peierls facilitate the appreciation of in
- Contents:
- 1. The brave men who fearlessly climb the harsh mountains
- 2. Kellnerinnen - a slight amount of respectability into the theory
- 3. The Birmingham-Cornell pipeline
- 4. Physics: not a young person's pastime.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 495-496) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786611911744
- 9781281911742
- 1281911747
- 9789812771360
- 9812771360
- OCLC:
- 666958333
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