Theorie der Beugung von Elektronen an Kristallen(1928)
Doctoral advisor
Arnold Sommerfeld
Doctoral students
Michel Baranger
David B. Beard
Hildred Blewett
Peter A. Carruthers
Ajoy Ghatak
Asoke Nath Mitra
Jeffrey Goldstone
Roman Jackiw
Francis E. Low
Robert Eugene Marshak
Walter McAfee
Boyce McDaniel
Michael Nauenberg
John W. Negele
Mark Nelkin
Ramamurti Rajaraman
J. J. Sakurai
Gordon Shaw [it]
David J. Thouless
Other notable students
Freeman Dyson
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Hans Albrecht Bethe (German pronunciation:[ˈhansˈbeːtə]ⓘ; 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.[1][2] For most of his career, Bethe was a professor at Cornell University.[3]
During World War II, he was head of the Theoretical Division at the secret Los Alamos laboratory that developed the first atomic bombs. There he played a key role in calculating the critical mass of the weapons and developing the theory behind the implosion method used in both the Trinity test and the "Fat Man" weapon dropped on Nagasaki in August 1945.
After the war, Bethe also played an important role in the development of the hydrogen bomb, although he had originally joined the project with the hope of proving it could not be made. Bethe later campaigned with Albert Einstein and the Emergency Committee of Atomic Scientists against nuclear testing and the nuclear arms race. He helped persuade the Kennedy and Nixon administrations to sign, respectively, the 1963 Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty and 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty (SALT I).
His scientific research never ceased and he was publishing papers well into his nineties, making him one of the few scientists to have published at least one major paper in his field during every decade of his career, which in Bethe's case spanned nearly seventy years. Freeman Dyson, once his doctoral student, called him the "supreme problem-solver of the 20th century".[4]
^ abLee, S.; Brown, G. E. (2007). "Hans Albrecht Bethe. 2 July 1906 -- 6 March 2005: Elected ForMemRS 1957". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 53: 1. doi:10.1098/rsbm.2007.0018.
^Horgan, John (1992). "Illuminator of the Stars". Scientific American. 267 (4): 32–40. Bibcode:1992SciAm.267d..32H. doi:10.1038/scientificamerican1092-32.
^Available at www.JamesKeckCollectedWorks.org [1] Archived May 9, 2019, at the Wayback Machine are the class notes taken by one of his students at Cornell from the graduate courses on Nuclear Physics and on Applications of Quantum Mechanics he taught in the spring of 1947.
^Wark, David (January 11, 2007). "The Supreme Problem Solver". Nature. 445 (7124): 149–150. Bibcode:2007Natur.445..149W. doi:10.1038/445149a.
Hans Albrecht Bethe (German pronunciation: [ˈhans ˈbeːtə] ; July 2, 1906 – March 6, 2005) was a German-American theoretical physicist who made major contributions...
of the traveling particle. The non-relativistic version was found by HansBethe in 1930; the relativistic version (shown below) was found by him in 1932...
most commonly for one-dimensional lattice models. It was first used by HansBethe in 1931 to find the exact eigenvalues and eigenvectors of the one-dimensional...
cycle (for carbon–nitrogen–oxygen; sometimes called Bethe–Weizsäcker cycle after Hans Albrecht Bethe and Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker) is one of the two...
neighbors. The Bethe lattice was introduced into the physics literature by HansBethe in 1935. In such a graph, each node is connected to z neighbors; the number...
Ultra. Albrecht Bethe (1872–1954), German physiologist and father of HansBethe Erich Bethe (1863–1940), German philologist HansBethe (1906–2005), German-American...
Bethe, Hans (1952). "Memorandum on the History of the Thermonuclear Program". Federation of American Scientists. Retrieved December 15, 2007. Bethe,...
Theoretical Physics Division at the Los Alamos Laboratory, working under HansBethe. His chief area of expertise was the problem of implosion, necessary for...
government's interference with universities, he provided no support to colleague HansBethe (winner of the 1967 Nobel Prize in Physics) when he was fired for being...
assigned to HansBethe's Theoretical (T) Division, and impressed Bethe enough to be made a group leader. He and Bethe developed the Bethe–Feynman formula...
appearance Haakon Chevalier — writer, friend of J. Robert Oppenheimer HansBethe — Los Alamos physicist, Nobel laureate in physics Francis Fergusson —...
Quantum optics. Cambridge University Press. pp. 13–16. ISBN 0-521-43595-1. HansBethe talking about Lamb-shift calculations on Web of Stories Nobel Prize biography...
plan for a pinch device, but is told to do other work for his thesis. HansBethe provides detailed calculations of the proton–proton chain reaction that...
1981, pp. 48–50. "The Nobel Prize in Physics 1967 HansBethe". Nobel Prize. "HansBethe". HansBethe - Biographical. Nobel Prize.org. Retrieved 11 March...
unable to explain. A first indication of a possible way out was given by HansBethe in 1947, after attending the Shelter Island Conference. While he was traveling...
doctoral students, Werner Heisenberg, Wolfgang Pauli, Peter Debye, and HansBethe went on to win Nobel Prizes, while others, most notably, Walter Heitler...
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