United States. President's Science Advisory Committee
Organization
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Hans Albrecht Bethe oral histories
Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924065186649]
Identifier: 14-22-2521
Scope and content
Oral history interviews with Hans Bethe conducted by Charles Weiner and Jagdish Mehra on Oct. 27-28, 1966, Nov. 17, 1967, and May 8-9, 1972. Subjects include natural radioactivity; ideas of nuclear constitution, size in 1920s; Gamow-Condon-Gurney theory of alpha decay, 1928; discovery of the neutron, 1932; Cambridge as a center of research, 1933; early theories of nuclear forces; analysis of short-range nuclear forces, 1935-1940; reasons for writing Reviews of Modern Physics review...
Dates:
1966-1981.
Hans Bethe papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 14-22-976
Abstract
Papers of Hans Albrecht Bethe, physicist, Cornell University professor of physics, Nobel laureate. Materials relate to Bethe's work concerning nuclear physics, solar, stellar, and nuclear energy, radiation, conduction in metals, and quantum mechanics; also the administration of the Cornell University Physics Department, and Cornell courses. Collection includes material on arms and arms control, underwater explosion research, the nuclear test ban, the Strategic Defense Initiative, the...
Dates:
[ca. 1931]-1995.
Additional filters:
- Subject
- Alpha decay. 1
- Anti-missile missiles. 1
- Arms control. 1
- Astrophysics. 1
- Beta decay. 1
- College teachers 1
- Compound nucleus. 1
- Cyclotrons. 1
- England -- Description and travel. 1
- England -- Intellectual life -- 20th century. 1
- England -- Social conditions -- 20th century. 1
- Evaporation. 1
- Germany -- Description and travel. 1
- Germany -- Intellectual life -- 20th century. 1
- Germany -- Politics and government -- 1933-1945. 1
- Germany -- Social conditions -- 1933-1945. 1
- Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1917-1935. 1
- Handbuch der physik. 1
- Hydrogen bomb. 1
- Matter -- Constitution. 1
- Metals. 1
- Neutrino. 1
- Neutrons. 1
- Nobel Prize winners. 1
- Nobel prizes. 1
- Nuclear collective models. 1
- Nuclear disarmament. 1
- Nuclear energy. 1
- Nuclear explosions. 1
- Nuclear forces (Physics) 1
- Nuclear liquid drop model. 1
- Nuclear models. 1
- Nuclear nonproliferation 1
- Nuclear optical models. 1
- Nuclear shell theory. 1
- Nuclear weapons -- Testing. 1
- Oral histories. 1
- Particle accelerators. 1
- Physicists. 1
- Physics -- Study and teaching. 1
- Quantum theory. 1
- Radiation. 1
- Radioactivity. 1
- Reviews of modern physics. 1
- Reviews. 1
- Science and state -- United States. 1
- Solar energy -- Research. 1
- Solid state physics. 1
- Strategic Defense Initiative. 1
- Supernovae. 1 + ∧ less
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