Talk:Hans Bethe

message: What, no mention of the famous "alpha beta gamma" paper by Alpher, Bethe and Gamow?  — JIP | Talk 13:44, 10 Mar 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: "Alpha beta gamma" paper

message: Nature disputes the accuracy of this article; see http://www.nature.com/news/2005/051212/multimedia/438900a_m1.html and Wikipedia:External_peer_review#Nature.  We're hoping they will provide a list of the alleged errors soon. —Steven G. Johnson 01:49, 15 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: [Alpher, Bethe (in absentia), and Gamow] is the proper citation; it was Gamow's joke, not Bethe's. --Ancheta Wis 02:50, 15 December 2005 (UTC)

text: Actually you could argue that the [2nd spoof paper] is a misnumbering because the [Alpher - Gamow] paper is genuine; it is only the attribution to Bethe that is humorous.  --Ancheta Wis 03:34, 15 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Nature claims errors 

message: * It is not really accurate to say that Bethe discovered "stellar nucleosyntheis" He showed how nuclear reactions accounted for the energy output from stars.
* Robert Wilson was not at Cornell before WWII; he came in 1947 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Zanimum (talk • contribs) 18:33, 22 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Nature errors to correct 

message: I added the nice quote of
Freeman Dyson who called Bethe "the supreme problem solver of the 20th century." Science History 13:56, 8 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dyson Quote 

message: He was born in Strasbourg, France ; at the time of his birth Strassburg, Germany. No, he was born in Straßburg/Strassburg, Germany!  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.221.119.227 (talk) 10:33, 18 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Straßburg

message: I notice that there are a number of external links on this page, e.g. 
*  Hans Bethe at Nobel lectures
*  Hans Bethe at World of Science
Please consider adding this link to an in depth video of Hans Bethe telling his life story.  The video is freely available on the Web of Stories website (http://webofstories.com):
* Hans Bethe video at Web of Stories
Fitzrovia calling (talk) 08:46, 22 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  External Links 

message: Would this count as a citation:
http://www.news.cornell.edu/chronicle/05/3.10.05/Bethe.html  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Zerakith (talk • contribs) 12:03, 14 April 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  I am not a Philosopher 

message: Seems an anon is insisting that Bethe was born in Straßburg, Austria, rather than Strasbourgh, Germany/France. Perhaps the [ Nobel biography] would convince. Vsmith (talk) 21:14, 13 August 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: If it was Alsace-Lorraine the current one is correct, I believe. Jamesx12345 21:37, 13 August 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Birthplace 

message: The following passage is in the article on Hilde Levi:
"She became engaged to the physicist Hans Bethe in 1934.[4] The two had known each other since 1925.[6] However, his mother, although herself Jewish, was opposed to her son marrying a Jewish girl, and he broke off the engagement a few days before the wedding was to take place.[4] Bethe's action shocked Franck and Bohr. Although an eminent physicist, Bethe would not be invited to visit the Niels Bohr Institute until after the Second World War.[7]"  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 120.18.162.98 (talk) 04:20, 18 October 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hilde Levi 

message: Would an interview with transcript with Hans Bethe from 1986 be useful here as an external link? Focus of conversation is nuclear weapons policy. http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_4883F5B3D049498CA208AFD5B9545FCC (I have a conflict of interest; otherwise I would add it myself.) Mccallucc (talk) 17:49, 23 March 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Added. I like external links where the reader can actually see and hear the subject. There are a few there already, but one more won't hurt. Hawkeye7 (talk) 21:53, 23 March 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  External link? 

message: Substituted at 17:06, 29 April 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Was given high importance back in 2007. Hawkeye7 (talk) 21:24, 29 April 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Assessment comment

message: I have read the section of this article titled "Lamb shift" several times and continue to find it confusing. In the sentence "Pre-war quantum electrodynamics (QED) gave absurd, infinite values for this; but the Lamb shift showed that it was both real and finite," it is not clear what the antecedent of either "this" or "it" might be. As a result, when the next paragraph announces that Bethe worked out "the calculation," it is not clear what calculation is being discussed. Can this be clarified? Thanks. blameless 19:34, 11 January 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: So you checked the cited sources? Bethe's paper is very short and easy to understand, although you may wish to perform the calculation yourself. I have re-worked the two paragraphs to remove pronouns, although I think what they referred to was clear enough, and there is only only calculation. Work through it step by step, following the paper. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 20:36, 11 January 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Lamb shift" section needs clarification 

message: I think it is reasonable to add this to Personal Life -- his wife not only survived him but did so by almost 2 decades and at her death was probably one of the very last people to have met some of the great scientists of not just the early 20th century but even of the mid to late 19th century. 50.230.251.244 (talk) 20:51, 29 September 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rose Ewald Becoming a Centenarian