LEADER 04628nam 2200685Ia 450 001 9910790350803321 005 20240102235751.0 010 $a0-674-07012-7 010 $a0-674-06553-0 024 7 $a10.4159/harvard.9780674065536 035 $a(DE-B1597)178218 035 $a(OCoLC)1013948510 035 $a(OCoLC)1037978484 035 $a(OCoLC)1041988888 035 $a(OCoLC)1046607286 035 $a(OCoLC)1047015757 035 $a(OCoLC)1049619505 035 $a(OCoLC)1054878421 035 $a(OCoLC)840445361 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780674065536 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3301111 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3301111 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10574891 035 $a(OCoLC)796815902 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC7186161 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL7186161 035 $a(CKB)2670000000205728 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000205728 100 $a20120221d2012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aNuclear forces$b[electronic resource] $ethe making of the physicist Hans Bethe /$fSilvan S. Schweber 210 $aCambridge, Mass. $cHarvard University Press$d2012 215 $aviii, 579 p$cill 300 $aFormerly CIP.$5Uk 311 $a0-674-06587-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tIntroduction --$t1. Growing Up --$t2. Maturing --$t3. Becoming Bethe --$t4. Beyond the Doctorate: 1928-1933 --$t5. England, 1933-1935 --$t6. Hilde Levi --$t7. Cornell University --$t8. The Happy Thirties --$t9. Rose Ewald Bethe --$tConclusion: Past and Future --$tAppendixes A. The Bethe Family Genealogy. B. Courses Taken at Frankfurt University. C. A Brief History of the Genesis of Quantum Mechanics. D. Courses Taken at Munich University. E. Bethe's Doctoral Thesis. F. The Habilitationsschrift Defense. Notes. References. Acknowledgments. Index --$tAppendix A. The Bethe Family Genealogy --$tAppendix B. Courses Taken at Frankfurt University --$tAppendix C. A Brief History of the Genesis of Quantum Mechanics --$tAppendix D. Courses Taken at Munich University --$tAppendix E. Bethe's Doctoral Thesis --$tAppendix F. The Habilitationsschrift Defense --$tNotes --$tReferences --$tAcknowledgments --$tIndex 330 $aOn 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. As Silvan Schweber follows Bethe from his childhood in Germany, to laboratories in Italy and England, and on to Cornell University, he shows how these differing environments were reflected in the kind of physics Bethe produced. Many of the young quantum physicists in the 1930's, including Bethe, had Jewish roots, and Schweber considers how Liberal Judaism in Germany helps explain their remarkable contributions. A portrait emerges of a man whose strategy for staying on top of a deeply hierarchical field was to tackle only those problems he knew he could solve. Bethe's emotional maturation was shaped by his father and by two women of Jewish background: his overly possessive mother and his wife, who would later serve as an ethical touchstone during the turbulent years he spent designing nuclear bombs. Situating Bethe in the context of the various communities where he worked, Schweber provides a full picture of prewar developments in physics that changed the modern world, and of a scientist shaped by the unprecedented moral dilemmas those developments in turn created. 606 $aNuclear physicists$zUnited States$vBiography 606 $aAtomic bomb$xMoral and ethical aspects$zUnited States 606 $aNuclear weapons$xMoral and ethical aspects$zUnited States 606 $aNuclear warfare$xMoral and ethical aspects$zUnited States 615 0$aNuclear physicists 615 0$aAtomic bomb$xMoral and ethical aspects 615 0$aNuclear weapons$xMoral and ethical aspects 615 0$aNuclear warfare$xMoral and ethical aspects 676 $a530.092 676 $aB 700 $aSchweber$b S. S$g(Silvan S.)$045255 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910790350803321 996 $aNuclear forces$93712149 997 $aUNINA