Hans Bethe And His Physics

by Brown, G. E.; Brown, Gerald E.; Lee, Chang-Hwan

• ISBN13: 9789812566102
• ISBN10: 9812566104
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-09-30
• Publisher: World Scientific Pub Co Inc

Summary

When Hans Bethe, at the age of 97, asked his long-term collaborator, Gerry Brown, to explain his scientific work to the world, the latter knew that this was a steep task. As the late John Bahcall famously remarked: "If you know his (Bethe's) work, you might be inclined to think he is really several people, all of whom are engaged in a conspiracy to sign their work with the same name." Almost eight decades of original research, hundreds of scientific papers, numerous books, countless reports spanning the key areas of twentieth-century physics are the impressive record of Hans Bethe's academic work.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. v
List of Contributing Authors	p. xiii
Hans Bethe and His Physics	p. 1
My Life in Astrophysics	p. 27
Three Weeks with Hans Bethe	p. 45
Hans Bethe at The New Yorker	p. 111
My Sixty Years with Hans Bethe	p. 115
Hans Bethe	p. 125
"The Happy Thirties"	p. 131
Stellar Energy Generation and Solar Neutrinos	p. 147
Hans Bethe and Quantum Electrodynamics	p. 157
Hans Bethe and the Theory of Nuclear Matter	p. 165
Hans Bethe and Astrophysical Theory	p. 175
Bethe's Hypothesis	p. 185
Hans Bethe's Contributions to Solid-State Physics	p. 189
Hans Bethe and the Nuclear Many-Body Problem	p. 201
And Don't Forget the Black Holes (with Commentary)	p. 239
Shaping Public Policy	p. 251
Hans Bethe and the Global Energy Problems	p. 263
In Memoriam: Hans Bethe	p. 273
Obituary: Hans A. Bethe	p. 279
List of Publications of Hans A. Bethe	p. 283
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