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Autore: | Bethe Hans A (Hans Albrecht), <1906-2005.> |
Titolo: | The Bethe-Peierls correspondence [[electronic resource] /] / Sabine Lee |
Pubblicazione: | Hackensack, NJ, : World Scientific, c2007 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (520 p.) |
Disciplina: | 530 |
Soggetto topico: | Nuclear physicists |
Altri autori: | PeierlsRudolf E <1907-1995.> (Rudolf Ernst) LeeSabine |
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 |
Titolo autorizzato: | The Bethe-Peierls correspondence |
ISBN: | 1-281-91174-7 |
9786611911744 | |
981-277-136-0 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910782211303321 |
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