 Courtesy of Cornell University Tributes · Resources with Additional Information "Hans Bethe was one of the great physicists not only of the twentieth century, but of all time. During his long life, he uncovered the secrets powering the stars, published the standard work on nuclear physics, built atomic weapons, and called for a halt to their proliferation. Bethe's dual legacy is one of genius and conscience."1 "Bethe headed the Theoretical (T) Division at Los Alamos [National Laboratory] from 1943 to 1946. Prior to joining the Manhattan Project, Bethe taught physics at Cornell University. ... It was during his early years at Cornell, before joining the Manhattan Project, that Bethe published his famous reviews of nuclear physics and conducted the groundbreaking work on the theory of energy production in stars that garnered him the Nobel Prize for physics in 1967. Bethe also conducted theoretical research on atomic and molecular physics, studying the behavior of groups of atoms and molecules, their interactions (collisions), and on solid-state physics. In 1947 ... he anticipated the discovery of the pi meson. That same year, Bethe was the first to explain the Lamb shift in the hydrogen spectrum, laying the foundation for the modern development of quantum electrodynamics."2 "In addition to his Nobel Prize, Bethe was awarded several other very prestigious awards, including the President's Medal of Merit, the Max Planck Medal, the Enrico Fermi Award, and the Los Alamos National Laboratory Medal."1 1 Edited excerpts from LANL
History: Hans A. Bethe, Los Alamos National Laboratory Staff Biographies
Resources with Additional InformationAdditional information about Hans Bethe and his research is available in full-text and on the Web. Documents: Energy
Production in Stars; Physical Review, Vol. 55, Issue
1: 103, January 1, 1939
Theory of High Frequency Rectification by Silicon Crystals, DOE Technical Report, October 29, 1942 Theoretical Estimate of Maximum Possible Nuclear Explosion, DOE Technical Report, January 31, 1950 Nuclear Many-Body Problem; Physical Review, Vol. 103, Issue 5: 1353-1390, September 1, 1956 Usefulness of Polarized Targets and the Polarization Transfer Tensor in Reconstruction of the Nucleon-Nucleon Scattering Matrix; Physical Review, Vol. 121, Issue 5: 1534-1541, March 1, 1961 Three-body Problem in Nuclear Matter, DOE Technical Report, 1967 Note
on Inverse Bremsstrahlung in a Strong Electromagnetic Field,
DOE Technical Report, September 1972 Fusion Hybrid Reactor, DOE Technical Report, August 1981 Nuclear Physics; Review of Modern Physics, Vol. 71, Issue 2: S6-S15, March 1999 Tributes:By Dr. Raymond L. Orbach, Director of the Department of Energy's Office of Science Titan of Physics and Conscience of Science, Cornell University Hans A. Bethe Prize, American Physical Society Posthumously Awarded the 2005 Benjamin Franklin Medal by the American Philosophical Society Additional Web Pages:
Quantum Physics Made Relatively
Simple, Personal and Historical
Perspectives of Hans Bethe – a talk
with neighbors at the Kendal at Ithaca retirement community
Interview with Hans Bethe Caltech Archives
Oral Histories Online
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