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Continuing work on solid state physics
Hans Bethe
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| 51. First impressions of Cornell | 1 | 659 | 03:33 |
| 52. Stanley Livingston's small cyclotron | 445 | 02:46 | |
| 53. Hiring Robert Bacher to Cornell | 406 | 01:33 | |
| 54. Writing Bethe's Bible | 723 | 02:38 | |
| 55. Neutron bombardment and resonance theory: Fermi's discoveries | 953 | 04:18 | |
| 56. Explaining neutron bombardment and resonance theory | 411 | 02:13 | |
| 57. Continuing work on solid state physics | 352 | 01:10 | |
| 58. Attending meetings of the American Physical Society | 377 | 03:11 | |
| 59. Electrodynamics and becoming a full professor at Cornell | 490 | 01:55 | |
| 60. Visiting Isidor Isaac Rabi | 895 | 01:36 |
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[Q] You indicate you were very much taken up with the new science of nuclear physics which is now made possible by the cyclotrons and neutrons coming into being. But you still carry on your activities in solid state physics. And...
Well, I did... I gave theses in solid state physics and one of them to Van der Lage was actually quite a good thesis, in which he expanded my theory of levels in a solid state, level splitting, and actually obtained the wave functions which correspond to various levels, and that was useful.
The late German-American physicist Hans Bethe once described himself as the H-bomb's midwife. He left Nazi Germany in 1933, after which he helped develop the first atomic bomb, won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1967 for his contribution to the theory of nuclear reactions, advocated tighter controls over nuclear weapons and campaigned vigorously for the peaceful use of nuclear energy.
Title: Continuing work on solid state physics
Listeners: Sam Schweber
Silvan Sam Schweber is the Koret Professor of the History of Ideas and Professor of Physics at Brandeis University, and a Faculty Associate in the Department of the History of Science at Harvard University. He is the author of a history of the development of quantum electro mechanics, "QED and the men who made it", and has recently completed a biography of Hans Bethe and the history of nuclear weapons development, "In the Shadow of the Bomb: Oppenheimer, Bethe, and the Moral Responsibility of the Scientist" (Princeton University Press, 2000).
Tags: nuclear physics, solid state physics, cyclotrons
Duration: 1 minute, 11 seconds
Date story recorded: December 1996
Date story went live: 24 January 2008
