Hans Bethe

thumb|Hans Bethe Hans Albrecht Bethe (July 2, 1906 – March 6, 2005) was a German-American theoretical physicist who made major contributions to nuclear physics, astrophysics, quantum electrodynamics, and solid-state physics, and who won the 1967 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on the theory of stellar nucleosynthesis. For most of his career, Bethe was a professor at Cornell University. Quotes We have more nuclear warheads than the Russians, and I consider this to be the most important measure of relative strength. In addition, as Dr. Kissinger stressed many years ago, at the present level of strategic armaments superiority in numbers or megatons has no meaning. Bethe's testimony to the U. S. Senate's Foreign Relations Committee on 13 May 1982, as reported in the New York Review of Books: The Inferiority Complex, 10 June 1982 You should look at all the experimental information at hand, not only the most relevant, and be prepared to make conjectures if that helps. as quoted by Edwin E. Salpeter in My Sixty Years with Hans Bethe, in an edition by Gerald Edward Brown, Chang-Hwan Lee Hans Bethe and his physics World Scientific 2006 9812566090 119–120 If we fight a war and win it with H-bombs, what history will remember is not the ideals we were fighting for but the methods we used to accomplish them. These methods will be compared to the warfare of Genghis Khan, who ruthlessly killed every last inhabitant of Persia. Hans A. Bethe The Road from Los Alamos: Collected Essays of Hans A. Bethe 17 9780883187074 Springer Science & Business Media 1991 Quotes about Bethe Together with Peierls, he developed a theory of the deuteron in 1934 which he extended in 1949. He resolved some contradictions in the nuclear mass scale in 1935. He studied the theory of nuclear reactions in 1935-1938, predicting many reaction cross sections. In connection with this work, he developed Bohr's theory of the compound nucleus in a more quantitative fashion. This work and also the existing knowledge on nuclear theory and experimental results, was summarized in three articles in the Reviews of Modern Physics which for many years served as a textbook for nuclear physicists. "Hans Bethe - Biographical". Nobelprize.org. Nobel Media AB 2014. Web. 2 Jun 2018, from Nobel Lectures, Physics 1963-1970, Elsevier Publishing Company, Amsterdam, 1972 External links Category:Academics from Germany Category:Academics from the United States Category:Physicists from Germany Category:Physicists from the United States Category:Nobel laureates in Physics Category:1906 births Category:2005 deaths Category:Atheists from the United States Category:German atheists Category:Jews from the United States Category:Jews from Germany Category:Nobel laureates from Germany Category:Nobel laureates from the United States Category:National Medal of Science laureates Category:Cornell University faculty Category:Manhattan Project people