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Hans Bethe and his physics /

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 reall...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Brown, G. E. (Gerald Edward), 1926-, Lee, Chang-Hwan
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Singapore ; Hackensack, N.J. : World Scientific, ©2006.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface
  • List of contributing authors
  • pt. 1. Hans Bethe and his physics / Gerald E. Brown. My life in astrophysics / Hans A. Bethe. Three weeks with Hans Bethe / Christoph Adami. Hans Bethe at The New Yorker / Jeremy Bernstein. My sixty years with Hans Bethe / Edwin E. Salpeter
  • pt. 2. Hans Bethe / Kurt Gottfried. "The happy thirties" / Silvan S. Schweber. Stellar energy generation and solar neutrinos / John N. Bahcall and Edwin E. Salpeter. Hans Bethe and quantum electrodynamics / Freeman Dyson. Hans Bethe and the theory of nuclear matter / John W. Negele. Hans Bethe and astrophysical theory / Gerald E. Brown
  • pt. 3. Bethe's hypothesis / Chen Ning Yang and Mo-Lin Ge. Hans Bethe's contributions to solid-state physics / N. David Mermin and Neil W. Ashcroft. Hans Bethe and the nuclear many-body problem / Jeremy Holt and Gerald E. Brown. And don't forget the black holes (with commentary) / Hans A. Bethe, Gerald E. Brown and Chang-Hwan Lee
  • pt. 4. Shaping public policy / Sidney Drell. Hans Bethe and the global energy problems / Boris Ioffe. In memoriam: Hans Bethe / Richard L. Garwin and Frank von Hippel. Obituary: Hans A. Bethe / Kuri Gottfried
  • List of publications of Hans A. Bethe.