Nuclear Forces - The Making of the Physicist Hans Bethe

Informationen zum Autor Silvan S. Schweber was Associate, Department of the History of Science at Harvard University and Professor of Physics and Richard Koret Professor in the History of Ideas, Emeritus, at Brandeis University. Klappentext What drove Nobel-winning physicist Hans Bethe! head of Theoretical Physics at Los Alamos during the Manhattan Project! to later renounce the weaponry he had worked so tirelessly to create? That is one of the questions answered by Nuclear Forces! a riveting biography of Bethe's early life and development as both a scientist and a man of principle. Zusammenfassung What drove Nobel-winning physicist Hans Bethe, head of Theoretical Physics at Los Alamos during the Manhattan Project, to later renounce the weaponry he had worked so tirelessly to create? That is one of the questions answered by Nuclear Forces, a riveting biography of Bethe’s early life and development as both a scientist and a man of principle.

Product details

• Authors: Silvan S. Schweber, Schweber Silvan S.
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 18.05.2012
• EAN: 9780674065871
• ISBN: 978-0-674-06587-1
• No. of pages: 608
• Dimensions: 168 mm x 240 mm x 42 mm
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Nature, technology > Biographies, autobiographies; SCIENCE / Physics / Quantum Theory, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Science & Technology, Politics & government, Nuclear physics, Biography: science, technology and medicine, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / General