Title: Nuclear forces : the making of the physicist Hans Bethe /
Authors: Schweber, S. S.
Publisher: Harvard University Press,
Year: 2012
Subjects: Bethe, Hans A.; Bethe, Hans A. Political and social views.; Manhattan Project (U.S.) Biography.; Nuclear physicists United States Biography.; Atomic bomb Moral and ethical aspects United States.; Nuclear weapons Moral and ethical aspects United States.; Nuclear warfare Moral and ethical aspects United States.
Abstract: "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 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..."--Publisher description.
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.