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Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Edwin E. Salpeter papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 14-22-2574
Scope and content

Correspondence and drafts pertaining to Salpeter and Hans Bethe's work in Handbuch der Physik XXXV; also, correspondence, announcements, reports, reprints, lecture notes, examinations and other material pertaining to Salpeter's involvement with the National Science Foundation and the National Science Board, especially concerning national science policy. Also, includes autobiography of Edwin's father, Jakob Salpeter and minutes of the Arecibo Technical Committee meetings.

Dates: 1949-1998.

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.