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Record Nr.

UNINA9910782211303321

Autore

Bethe Hans A (Hans Albrecht), <1906-2005.>

Titolo

The Bethe-Peierls correspondence [[electronic resource] /] / Sabine Lee

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hackensack, NJ, : World Scientific, c2007

ISBN

1-281-91174-7

9786611911744

981-277-136-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (520 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

PeierlsRudolf E <1907-1995.> (Rudolf Ernst)

LeeSabine

Disciplina

530

Soggetti

Nuclear physicists

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 495-496) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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 pasttime.

Sommario/riassunto

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