A Conversation with Hans Bethe

Physics in Perspective

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 253-281

  Goodstein, Judith ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bethe; Fascism; Los Alamos; Physics history

Indexed keywords

EID: 0346876139     PISSN: 14226944     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s000160050022     Document Type: Review

References (20)

1. On Millikan see Robert Kargon, The Rise of Robert Millikan: Portrait of a Life in American Science (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1982) and Daniel J. Kevles, The Physicists: The History of a Scientific Community in Modern America (1st ed. New York: Knopf, 1977; reprinted, with a new preface, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1995).
2. On Millikan see Robert Kargon, The Rise of Robert Millikan: Portrait of a Life in American Science (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1982) and Daniel J. Kevles, The Physicists: The History of a Scientific Community in Modern America (1st ed. New York: Knopf, 1977; reprinted, with a new preface, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1995).
3. Later published as Jeremy Bernstein, Hans Bethe, Prophet of Energy (New York: Basic Books, 1980). See also, H. A. Bethe, "The Happy Thirties," in Roger H. Stuewer, ed., Nuclear Physics in Retrospect: Proceedings of a Symposium on the 1930s (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1979), pp. 9-31; Silvan S. Schweber, "Writing the Biography of a Living Scientist: Hans Bethe," in R. S. Krishnamurthy, C. S. Mead, and M. J. Nye, eds., The Pauling Symposium: A Discourse on the Art of Biography (Corvallis: Oregon State University Libraries, 1996), pp. 159-196.
4. Later published as Jeremy Bernstein, Hans Bethe, Prophet of Energy (New York: Basic Books, 1980). See also, H. A. Bethe, "The Happy Thirties," in Roger H. Stuewer, ed., Nuclear Physics in Retrospect: Proceedings of a Symposium on the 1930s (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1979), pp. 9-31; Silvan S. Schweber, "Writing the Biography of a Living Scientist: Hans Bethe," in R. S. Krishnamurthy, C. S. Mead, and M. J. Nye, eds., The Pauling Symposium: A Discourse on the Art of Biography (Corvallis: Oregon State University Libraries, 1996), pp. 159-196.
5. Later published as Jeremy Bernstein, Hans Bethe, Prophet of Energy (New York: Basic Books, 1980). See also, H. A. Bethe, "The Happy Thirties," in Roger H. Stuewer, ed., Nuclear Physics in Retrospect: Proceedings of a Symposium on the 1930s (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1979), pp. 9-31; Silvan S. Schweber, "Writing the Biography of a Living Scientist: Hans Bethe," in R. S. Krishnamurthy, C. S. Mead, and M. J. Nye, eds., The Pauling Symposium: A Discourse on the Art of Biography (Corvallis: Oregon State University Libraries, 1996), pp. 159-196.
6. On Caltech's program see Judith R. Goodstein, Millikan's School: A History of the California Institute of Technology (New York: W. W. Norton, 1991), chap. 12; Interview of William A Fowler, by John Greenberg, May 3, 1983, Caltech Archives, Pasadena, CA.
7. Enrico Fermi, "Quantum Theory of Radiation," Reviews of Modern Physics 4 (1932), 87-132. On Fermi see Emilio Segrè, Enrico Fermi: Physicist (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1970) and Segrè, A Mind Always in Motion: The Autobiography of Emilio Segrè (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993).
8. Enrico Fermi, "Quantum Theory of Radiation," Reviews of Modern Physics 4 (1932), 87-132. On Fermi see Emilio Segrè, Enrico Fermi: Physicist (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1970) and Segrè, A Mind Always in Motion: The Autobiography of Emilio Segrè (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993).
9. Enrico Fermi, "Quantum Theory of Radiation," Reviews of Modern Physics 4 (1932), 87-132. On Fermi see Emilio Segrè, Enrico Fermi: Physicist (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1970) and Segrè, A Mind Always in Motion: The Autobiography of Emilio Segrè (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993).
10. See Bethe's description of the collaboration in Segrè, Enrico Fermi, pp. 59-60.
11. Interview of Franco Rasetti, by J. R. Goodstein, February 4, 1982, Caltech Archives, Pasadena, CA.
12. For two different views on his disappearance see Leonardo Sciascia, La scomparsa di Majorana (Turin: Einaudi, 1975) and E. Amaldi, "Ettore Majorana, Man and Scientist," in A. Zichichi, ed., Strong and Weak Interactions; Present Problems (New York: Academic Press, 1966), pp. 10-77.
13. For two different views on his disappearance see Leonardo Sciascia, La scomparsa di Majorana (Turin: Einaudi, 1975) and E. Amaldi, "Ettore Majorana, Man and Scientist," in A. Zichichi, ed., Strong and Weak Interactions; Present Problems (New York: Academic Press, 1966), pp. 10-77.
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15. On Feynman see James Gleick, Genius: The Life and Times of Richard Feynman (New York: Pantheon, 1992).
16. On the history of the Manhattan Project see Richard Rhodes, The Making of the Atomic Bomb (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1986). See also Lawrence Badash, Joseph O. Hirschfelder, and Herbert P. Broida, eds., Reminiscences of Los Alamos, 1943-1945 (Boston: Reidel, 1980).
17. On the history of the Manhattan Project see Richard Rhodes, The Making of the Atomic Bomb (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1986). See also Lawrence Badash, Joseph O. Hirschfelder, and Herbert P. Broida, eds., Reminiscences of Los Alamos, 1943-1945 (Boston: Reidel, 1980).
18. J. R. Oppenheimer and G. M. Volkoff, "On Massive Neutron Cores," Phys. Rev. 55 (1939), 374-381.
19. See David C. Elliot, "Project Vista and Nuclear Weapons in Europe," International Security 11 (1986), 163-183 and W. A. Fowler, "Charles Christian Lauritsen, 1892-1968," Biographical Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences 46 (1975), 221-239.
20. See David C. Elliot, "Project Vista and Nuclear Weapons in Europe," International Security 11 (1986), 163-183 and W. A. Fowler, "Charles Christian Lauritsen, 1892-1968," Biographical Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences 46 (1975), 221-239.