Nuclear forces
Subtitle: the making of the physicist Hans Bethe
By: Silvan S. Schweber
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 579
ISBN-13: 9780674065871
Subjects: Nuclear weapons; Nuclear physicists; Atomic bomb; Political and social views; Manhattan Project (U.S.); Biography; Nuclear warfare
Description: "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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Growing Up; title: Maturing; title: Becoming Bethe; title: Beyond the Doctorate : 1928-1933; title: England, 1933-1935; title: Hilde Levi; title: Cornell University; title: The Happy Thirties; title: Rose Ewald Bethe; title: Conclusion: Past and Future; title: Appendix A: The Bethe Family Genealogy; title: Appendix B: Courses Taken at Frankfurt University; title: Appendix C: A Brief History of the Genesis of Quantum Mechanics; title: Appendix D: Courses Taken at Munich University; title: Appendix E: Bethe's Doctoral Thesis; title: Appendix F: The Habilitationsschrift Defense.