Nuclear physics -- Research
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
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.