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Nuclear forces [[electronic resource] ] : the making of the physicist Hans Bethe / / Silvan S. Schweber



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Autore: Schweber S. S (Silvan S.) Visualizza persona
Titolo: Nuclear forces [[electronic resource] ] : the making of the physicist Hans Bethe / / Silvan S. Schweber Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Cambridge, Mass., : Harvard University Press, 2012
Descrizione fisica: viii, 579 p : ill
Disciplina: 530.092
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Soggetto topico: Nuclear physicists - United States
Atomic bomb - Moral and ethical aspects - United States
Nuclear weapons - Moral and ethical aspects - United States
Nuclear warfare - Moral and ethical aspects - United States
Note generali: Formerly CIP.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. Growing Up -- 2. Maturing -- 3. Becoming Bethe -- 4. Beyond the Doctorate: 1928-1933 -- 5. England, 1933-1935 -- 6. Hilde Levi -- 7. Cornell University -- 8. The Happy Thirties -- 9. Rose Ewald Bethe -- Conclusion: Past and Future -- Appendixes 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 -- Appendix A. The Bethe Family Genealogy -- Appendix B. Courses Taken at Frankfurt University -- Appendix C. A Brief History of the Genesis of Quantum Mechanics -- Appendix D. Courses Taken at Munich University -- Appendix E. Bethe's Doctoral Thesis -- Appendix F. The Habilitationsschrift Defense -- Notes -- References -- Acknowledgments -- Index
Sommario/riassunto: 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. 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.
Titolo autorizzato: Nuclear forces  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-674-07012-7
0-674-06553-0
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910790350803321
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