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Archival as AuthorArchival as SubjectPublished as AuthorPublished as SubjectHans A. Bethe
Dates
July 2, 1906 – March 6, 2005
Authorized Form of Name
Bethe, Hans A. (Hans Albrecht), 1906-2005
Additional Forms of Names
Bete, G., 1906-2005
Bethe, H. A.
Bethe, H. A. (Hans Albrecht), 1906-2005
Bethe, Hans Albrecht, 1906-
Bethe, Hans Albrecht, 1906-2005
Biography
Abstract
Hans Albrecht Bethe (1906-2005) Physicist, Ph.D. in physics from University of Munich; Cornell University professor of physics; Nobel laureate.
Important Dates
July 2, 1906Birth in Strasbourg, Germany, Strasbourg (France).
1928Received Ph.D. in Physics, University of Munich (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München), Munich (Germany).
1928 – 1929Instructor in Physics, University of Frankfurt (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main).
1929Instructor in Physics, University of Stuttgart (Universität Stuttgart).
1930 – 1931Rockefeller Fellow, University of Cambridge and University of Rome (Università di Roma).
1931 – 1932Lecturer in Physics, University of Munich (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München).
1932 – 1933Assistant Professor of Physics, University of Tubingen (Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen). Bethe was removed from this position under the Nuremberg Laws.
1933 – 1934Lecturer in Physics, University of Manchester.
1935 – 2005Assistant Professor (1935-1937); John Wendell Anderson Professor of Physics (1937-1975); and Emeritus Professor of Physics (1975-2005), Cornell University, Ithaca (N.Y.).
1941Visiting Professor, Columbia University, New York (N.Y.).
1942 – 1943Staff Member, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Radiation Laboratory.
1943 – 1946Leader of Theoretical Division, Los Alamos Laboratory, Manhattan Project.
1944Member, National Academy of Sciences.
1948Visiting Professor, Columbia University, New York (N.Y.).
1950Visiting Professor, University of Washington, Seattle (Wash.).
1953 – 1963Consultant, Atomic Power Development Associates.
1954President, American Physical Society (APS).
1955 – 1956Visiting Professor, University of Cambridge, Cambridge (England).
1955 – 1987Consultant, Avco Everett Research Laboratory.
1956 – 1957Member, Science Advisory Committee, U.S. Office of Defense Mobilization.
1957 – 1959Member, President's Science Advisory Committee.
1958 – 1959Member of U.S. Delegation to the Discussions on Discontinuance of Nuclear Weapons Tests, held in Geneva.
1960Visiting Professor, University of Washington, Seattle (Wash.).
1961Awarded Enrico Fermi Award, U.S. Atomic Energy Commission.
1964Visiting Professor, Nordic Institute for Theoretical Physics (NORDITA, Nordisk institut for teoretisk atomfysik), Stockholm (Sweden).
1964Visiting Professor, California Institute of Technology.
1967Visiting Professor, University of Washington, Seattle (Wash.).
1967Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics "for his contributions to the theory of nuclear reactions, especially his discoveries concerning the energy production in stars".
1970Visiting Professor, Nordic Institute for Theoretical Physics (NORDITA, Nordisk institut for teoretisk atomfysik), Stockholm (Sweden).
1973Visiting Professor, University of Washington, Seattle (Wash.).
1974Visiting Professor, Nordic Institute for Theoretical Physics (NORDITA, Nordisk institut for teoretisk atomfysik), Stockholm (Sweden).
1975Visiting Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge (Mass.).
1975Awarded National Medal of Science.
1976Visiting Professor, University of Washington, Seattle (Wash.).
1977Visiting Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge (Mass.).
1978Visiting Professor, Nordic Institute for Theoretical Physics (NORDITA, Nordisk institut for teoretisk atomfysik), Stockholm (Sweden).
1981Visiting Professor, Nordic Institute for Theoretical Physics (NORDITA, Nordisk institut for teoretisk atomfysik), Stockholm (Sweden).
1981 – 1984Member, Advisory Board, Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara.
1982Visiting Professor, Harvard University, Cambridge (Mass.).
1982Visiting Professor, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena (Calif.).
1984Visiting Professor, Nordic Institute for Theoretical Physics (NORDITA, Nordisk institut for teoretisk atomfysik), Stockholm (Sweden).
1985Visiting Professor, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena (Calif.).
1987Visiting Professor, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena (Calif.).
March 6, 2005Death, Ithaca (N.Y.).
Occupation
Nuclear physicist and astrophysicist.
Places
Birth
Graduate Education
Employment
Death
Subjects
Physics -- Study and teaching.
Relationships
People
Family
Bethe, Henry
Son.
Bethe, Monica
Daughter.
Bethe, Rose Ewald
Wife, married in 1939.
Advisors & Collaborators
Bacher, Robert F. (Robert Fox), 1905-2004
Both employed at Cornell University and co-wrote "Nuclear physics" and "Seminal articles on nuclear physics."
Baranger, Michel
Advised by Bethe at Cornell University.
Beard, David B.
Advised by Bethe at Cornell University.
Brown, G. E. (Gerald Edward), 1926-
Collaborated on nuclear physics derived equations of state in the theory of compact stars.
Carruthers, Peter A., 1935-1997
Advised by Bethe at Cornell University.
Advised by Bethe at Cornell University (post-doctorally). Both employed at Cornell University.
Post-doctoral advisor at University of Rome and both employed at Los Alamos Laboratory, Manhattan Project.
Fowler, R. H. (Ralph Howard), 1889-1994
Post-doctoral advisor at University of Cambridge.
Gammel, John L., 1924-
Advised by Bethe at Cornell University.
Advised by Bethe at University of Cambridge.
Advised by Bethe at Cornell University, “Nonperturbative solutions of the Bethe-Salpeter equation for the vertex function.” Co-wrote "Intermediate Quantum Mechanics."
Levinger, Joseph S., 1921-
Advised by Bethe at Cornell University.
Livingston, M. Stanley (Milton Stanley)
Both employed at Cornell University and co-wrote "Nuclear Physics".
Low, Francis E. (Francis Eugene), 1921-2007
Advised by Bethe at Columbia University.
Marshak, Robert E. (Robert Eugene), 1916-1992
Advised by Bethe at Cornell University, "Energy Production in White Dwarf Stars."
McDaniel, Boyce D. (Boyce Dawkins), 1917-
Advised by Bethe at Cornell University, and both employed at Cornell University.
Moravcsik, Michael J.
Advised by Bethe at Cornell University.
Co-wrote the textbook "Elementary Nuclear Physics." Both employed at Cornell University.
Negele, John W.
Advised by Bethe at Cornell University.
Sakurai, J. J. (Jun John), 1933-1982
Advised by Bethe at Cornell University.
Salpeter, Edwin E.
Co-wrote "Quantum mechanics of one- and two-electron atoms".
Schweber, S. S. (Silvan S.)
Co-wrote "Mesons and fields".
Sessler, A. M. (Andrew Marienhoff)
Advised by Bethe at Cornell University and both employed at Cornell University.
Shaw, G. L. (Gordon Lionel), 1932-2005
Advised by Bethe at Cornell University.
Sommerfeld, Arnold, 1868-1951
Ph.D. advisor at University of Munich on the theory of diffraction of electrons by crystals.
Advised by Bethe at Cornell University, "The application of perturbation methods to the theory of nuclear matter."
Zapolsky, Harold S.
Advised by Bethe at Cornell University.
Colleagues
Both employed at Cornell University.
Both employed at Cornell University.
Courant, Ernest D. (Ernest David), 1920-
Both employed at Cornell University.
Both employed at Cornell University.
Both employed at Cornell University.
Both employed at Cornell University.
Both employed at Cornell University.
Dryden, Hugh L. (Hugh Latimer), 1898-1965
Both worked at United States Office of Defense Mobilization.
DuBridge, Lee A. (Lee Alvin), 1901-1994
Both worked at United States Office of Defense Mobilization.
Feigenbaum, Mitchell, 1944-2019
Both employed at Cornell University.
Feynman, Richard P. (Richard Phillips), 1918-1988
Both employed at Los Alamos Laboratory, Manhattan Project and Cornell University.
Fisher, Michael E. (Michael Ellis)
Both employed at Cornell University.
Flanders, Donald
Both employed at Los Alamos Laboratory, Manhattan Project.
Frankel, S., 1919-
Both employed at Los Alamos Laboratory, Manhattan Project.
Both employed at Los Alamos Laboratory, Manhattan Project.
Both employed at Cornell University.
Hirschfelder, Joseph Oakland, 1911-
Both employed at Los Alamos Laboratory, Manhattan Project.
Both employed at Cornell University.
Kistiakowsky, George B. (George Bogdan), 1900-1982
Both worked on President's Science Advisory Committee (PSAC).
Both employed at Cornell University.
Both employed at Cornell University.
Both employed at Cornell University.
Both employed at Cornell University.
Both employed at Cornell University.
Both employed at Cornell University.
Both employed at the Chicago Metallurgical Laboratory, Manhattan Project.
Nelson, Eldred C. (Eldred Carlyle), 1917-
Both employed at Los Alamos Laboratory, Manhattan Project.
Oppenheimer, J. Robert, 1904-1967
Both employed at Los Alamos Laboratory, Manhattan Project.
Overhauser, Albert Warner, 1925-
Both employed at Cornell University.
Both employed at Cornell University.
Peierls, Rudolf E. (Rudolf Ernst), 1907-1995
Both employed at Los Alamos Laboratory, Manhattan Project.
Both employed at Cornell University.
Placzek, G. (George), 1905-1955
Both employed at Los Alamos Laboratory, Manhattan Project.
Both employed at Cornell University.
Both worked on President's Science Advisory Committee (PSAC).
Both employed at Cornell University.
Richardson, Robert C. (Robert Coleman), 1937-2013
Both employed at Cornell University.
Robertson, H. P. (Howard Percy), 1903-1961
Both worked on President's Science Advisory Committee (PSAC).
Both employed at Cornell University.
Both employed at Los Alamos Laboratory, Manhattan Project.
Both employed at Cornell University.
Tape, Gerald Frederick, 1915-2005
Both employed at Cornell University.
Both employed at Los Alamos Laboratory, Manhattan Project.
Teukolsky, Saul A. (Saul Arno), 1947-
Both employed at Cornell University.
Both employed at Cornell University.
Waterman, Alan Tower, 1892-1967
Both worked at United States Office of Defense Mobilization.
Weisskopf, Victor Frederick, 1908-2002
Both employed at Los Alamos Laboratory, Manhattan Project.
Wiesner, Jerome B. (Jerome Bert), 1915-1994
Both worked on President's Science Advisory Committee (PSAC).
Wilson, Kenneth G. (Kenneth Geddes), 1936-2013
Both employed at Cornell University.
Both employed at Cornell University.
York, Herbert F. (Herbert Frank)
Both worked on President's Science Advisory Committee (PSAC).
Zacharias, Jerrold Reinach, 1905-1986
Both worked on President's Science Advisory Committee (PSAC) and United States Office of Defense Mobilization.
Additional
Alpher, Ralph, 1921-2007
Amaldi, Edoardo
Amrine, Milton Frederick, 1918-1974
Bainbridge, Kenneth T. (Kenneth Tompkins), 1904-1996
Barton, Henry Askew, 1898-1983
Bethe, Hans A. (Hans Albrecht), 1906-2005
Biermann, Ludwig, 1907-1986
Blackett, P. M. S. (Patrick Maynard Stuart), Baron Blackett, 1897-1974
Chandrasekhar, S. (Subrahmanyan), 1910-1995
Condon, Edward Uhler, 1902-1974
Cranberg, Lawrence, 1917-2011
Darrow, Karl K. (Karl Kelchner), 1891-
Davisson, Clinton Joseph, 1881-1958
DuMond, Jesse W. M. (Jesse William Monroe), 1892-1976
Dupree, Andrea K.
Eisenhower, Dwight D. (Dwight David), 1890-1969
Ewald, Paul Peter, 1888-1985
Frisch, Ursula Blau
Gibbs, R. C. (Roswell Clifton), 1878-
Groueff, Stephane
Hartman, Paul, 1913-
Heitler, Walter, 1904-
Heppenheimer, T. A., 1947-
Hoddeson, Lillian
Inglis, David Rittenhouse, 1905-1995
Johnson, Vivian A. (Vivian Annabelle), 1912-
Kidder, R. E. (Ray E.)
Konopinski, Emil Jan, 1911-
Lauritsen, Charles Christian, 1892-1968
Lawrence, Ernest Orlando, 1901-1958
Lee, Chang-Hwan
Lewis, H. W. (Harold Warren)
Livingood, John J. (John Jacob), 1903-
Margenau, Henry, 1901-1997
Mark, Carson
McCrea, William Hunter
McMillan, Edwin M. (Edwin Mattison), 1907-
Meitner, Lise, 1878-1968
Migdal, A. B. (Arkadii Beinusovich), 1911-1991
Millikan, Robert Andrews, 1868-1953
Moller, C. (Christian), 1904-1980
Morse, Philip M. (Philip McCord), 1903-1985
Mott, N. F. (Nevill Francis), Sir, 1905-1996
Nix, Foster Cary, 1905-
Nordheim, Lothar, 1899-
Oppenheimer, Frank, 1912-1985
Palevsky, Mary, 1949-
Panofsky, Wolfgang K. H. (Wolfgang Kurt Hermann), 1919-2007
Pauling, Linus, 1901-1994
Pegram, George Braxton, 1876-1958
Rabi, I. I. (Isidor Isaac), 1898-1988
Rabinowitch, Eugene, 1901-1973
Richards, Hugh T. (Hugh Taylor), 1918-2006
Ridenour, Louis N. (Louis Nicot), 1911-1959
Rohrlich, F.
Rose, Morris Edgar, 1911-
Rosenblith, Walter A(lter)
Schreiber, R. E.
Schwarzschild, Martin
Shapley, Harlow, 1885-1972
Smith, Cyril Stanley, 1903-1992
Stromgren, Bengt, 1908-1987
Tamm, I. E. (Igor' Evgen'evich), 1895-1971
Taylor, Theodore B., 1925-
Von Kármán, Theodore, 1881-1963
Weizsacker, Carl Friedrich, Freiherr von, 1912-2007
Welton, Theodore Allen, 1918-
Wheeler, John Archibald, 1911-2008
Wigner, Eugene Paul, 1902-1995
Institutions
Major Positions
Avco-Everett Research Laboratory
Consultant.
California Institute of Technology. Division of Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy
Visiting Professor.
Columbia University. Department of Physics
Visiting Professor.
Cornell University. Department of Physics
Assistant Professor to John Wendell Anderson Professor of Physics and Emeritus Professor of Physics.
Harvard University. Department of Physics
Visiting Professor.
Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory
Leader, Theoretical Division, Manhattan Project.
Manhattan Project (U.S.)
Leader, Theoretical Division, Los Alamos Laboratory.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
Visiting Professor.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Radiation Laboratory
Staff member.
Nordisk institut for teoretisk atomfysik
Visiting Professor.
Universität Frankfurt am Main
Instructor in Physics.
Universität München
Received Ph.D. in Physics in 1928 and Lecturer in physics.
Universität Stuttgart
Instructor in Physics.
Universität Tübingen
Assistant Professor of Physics.
University of Cambridge. Department of Physics
Rockefeller Fellow and Visiting Professor.
University of Manchester. Physics Department
Lecturer in Physics.
University of Washington. Department of Physics
Visiting Professor.
Professional Activities & Affiliations
President.
National Academy of Sciences (U.S.)
United States. President's Science Advisory Committee
Member.
United States. Science Advisory Committee
Member.
Università di Roma
Rockefeller Fellow.
University of California, Santa Barbara. Institute for Theoretical Physics
Member, Advisory Board.
Resources
Archival Resources
Author
A symposium in honor of Hans A. Bethe on the occasion of his 60th birthday [sound recording] at Cornell University, 1966 October 21.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
An evening with Hans Bethe: the German atomic bomb project [videorecording] / produced at Cornell University, Dept. of Physics by Eric L. Gasieiger ; director, Mike E. Allmendinger.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Emilio Segre lectures and other collected recordings, 1968-1997.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Exploring the history of nuclear physics [sound recording] : the role of theory in the development of nuclear physics; Joint Conference of the American Institute of Physics and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1969 May 18, 19.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Fermi Memorial Session [sound recording] / American Physical Society spring meeting, 1955 April 30.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Fritz Rohrlich notes from the Pocono Conference on Physics, 1948.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
General interest session [sound recording], 1968 April 24.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
General interest session on history of physics [sound recording], 1972 April 25.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Gregory Breit Symposium [sound recording], 1968 May 3.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Hans Bethe and David Mermin discuss the early history of solid state physics [videorecording] / 2003 February 25.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Hans Bethe letter to Lawrence Cranberg, 2000.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Hans Bethe papers, circa 1931-1992.
Carl A. Kroch Library. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University
2B Carl A Kroch Library, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA
Hans Bethe speech [audiorecording], 1969.
Institute Archives and Special Collections
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
M.I.T. Libraries, Rm. 14N-118, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
How well we meant [videorecording], 1983.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Joint symposium of the Division of Astrophysics and the Forum for History of Physics [sound recording] / 1987 April 21 & 22.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Hans Bethe, 1964 January 17.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Hans Bethe, 1966 October 27, 28, 1967 November 17, 1972 May 8 and 9.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Hans Bethe, 1981 April 29.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Hans Bethe, 1982, 1993.
Institute Archives
California Institute of Technology
1201 East California Blvd. (Mail Code 015A-74), Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
Palmer Physical Laboratory Colloquia [sound recording], 1962 and 1966.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Peoples Archive interviews with physicists, [video recording]
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Remembering Hans Bethe [video recording], 2005.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Remembering Hans Bethe [videorecording]: conversations with Hans Bethe.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Reminiscences at Robert Marshak's sixtieth birthday banquet [sound recording], 1977 January 21.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Special colloquium [sound recording] : Arms Control Panel / 1983 April 13.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Symposium of the Forum on Physics and Society [sound recording] : Prize session; 1982 April 27.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Technical aspects of the Antiballistic Missile System [sound recording] 1969 April 29.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
The worlds of Philip Morrison [video and audio recording], 1986.
Institute Archives and Special Collections
Massachusetts Historical Society
M.I.T. Libraries, Rm. 14N-118, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
Thomas A. Heppenheimer interviews, 1982-1983.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Subject
AIP Office of the Director records of Henry A. Barton, 1931-1964.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Atoms for Peace Award records, 1944-1972.
Institute Archives and Special Collections
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
M.I.T. Libraries, Rm. 14N-118, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
Bruno Rossi papers, 1927-1985.
Institute Archives and Special Collections
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
M.I.T. Libraries, Rm. 14N-118, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
Christian Møller papers, 1928-1980.
Niels Bohr Archive
Blegdamsvej 17, Copenhagen, Denmark
Clinton J. Davisson letters to Louis de Broglie, Hans Albrecht Bethe, and Philip McCord Morse, 1927-1936.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Conference notes prepared informally and unofficially by John A. Wheeler, 1948.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Conversations with David Inglis, [videorecording] Feb.-May 1989.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Creating Copenhagen [videorecording] / produced by The Graduate Center of the City University of New York and The Ensemble Studio Theatre/Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Science and Technology Project, 2000, March 27.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Dwight D. Eisenhower papers as President of the United States, 1953-1961.
Dwight D. Eisenhower Library
Abilene, KS 67410, USA
Edward Condon papers, circa 1920-1974.
Library
American Philosophical Society
105 South Fifth Street, Philadelphia, PA 19106, USA
Edwin E. Salpeter papers, 1949-1998.
Carl A. Kroch Library. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University
2B Carl A Kroch Library, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA
Eisenhower Library oral history collection.
Dwight D. Eisenhower Library
Abilene, KS 67410, USA
Emergency Committee of Atomic Scientists records, 1946-1951.
The Joseph Regenstein Library. Department of Special Collections
University of Chicago
1100 East 57th Street, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
Eugene Feenberg correspondence, 1927-1958.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Eugene Feenberg papers, 1906-1977.
Libraries. University Archives
Washington University
Campus Box 1061, One Brookings Drive, St. Louis, MO 63130-4899, USA
Eugene Rabinowitch papers, 1954-1964.
The Joseph Regenstein Library. Department of Special Collections
University of Chicago
1100 East 57th Street, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
Excerpt from a Ursula Frisch letter to Hans Bethe about Lise Meitner, circa 1968.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Frank Press papers, 1945-1997.
Institute Archives and Special Collections
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
M.I.T. Libraries, Rm. 14N-118, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
Fritz Rohrlich correspondence, 1946-1955.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
From a life of physics [motion picture] / produced by the International Centre for Theoretical Physics (Trieste, Italy).
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
George Placzek papers, 1934-1955, undated.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Hans Bethe calculations and notes from the Hans Bethe 60th Birthday Symposium, 1966.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Hans Frauenfelder response to survey on the impact of immigration on U.S. physics, 1999.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Herbert F. York papers, 1958-1999.
Mandeville Special Collections Library
University of California, San Diego
9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA
History of atomic energy collection, 1896-1991.
Libraries. Special Collections
Oregon State University
Corvallis, OR 97331, USA
History of physics audio-visual collection, circa 1918-1996, 1960-1988 (bulk)
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Hugh T. Richards response to 1981 History of Nuclear Physics Survey, 1990.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
I can do that: [videorecording] Hans Bethe's first 60 years at Cornell, executive producer, David H. Rose; producer and writer, Edward Hershey; director, Michael Champlin, 1995.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
I. I. Rabi papers, 1899-1989 (bulk 1945-1968).
Manuscript Division
Library of Congress
James Madison Memorial Building, First Street and Independence Avenue SE, Washington, DC 20540, USA
Igor E. Tamm papers, 1921-1971.
contact Tamm family
In private hands
Moscow
J. Robert Oppenheimer papers, 1921-1980 (bulk 1947-1967).
Manuscript Division
Library of Congress
James Madison Memorial Building, First Street and Independence Avenue SE, Washington, DC 20540, USA
Jesse W. M. DuMond papers, 1912-1976.
Institute Archives
California Institute of Technology
1201 East California Blvd. (Mail Code 015A-74), Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
Jim Dawson collection on Frank Oppenheimer, 1946-1999.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
John Von Neumann papers, 1912-1996 (bulk 1935-1957).
Manuscript Division
Library of Congress
James Madison Memorial Building, First Street and Independence Avenue SE, Washington, DC 20540, USA
Journal of Jocular Physics, 1935-1955
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Karl Darrow correspondence relating to history of physics, 1943-1968.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Kenneth I. Greisen lecture notes, 1940.
Carl A. Kroch Library. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University
2B Carl A Kroch Library, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA
Lawrence Cranberg papers, 1962-2000.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
LBL Office of the Director records of Edwin M. McMillan [microfilm], 1907-1991.
Archives and Records Office
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
One Cyclotron Road, Bldg. 69-107, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
LBL Office of the Director records of Edwin M. McMillan, 1907-1991.
Pacific Sierra Region
National Archives and Records Administration
1000 Commodore Drive, San Bruno, CA 94066, USA
Lillian Hoddeson papers, 1904-2001.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Louis N. Ridenour papers, 1946-1959.
University Archives
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
1408 West Gregory Drive, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
Manhattan Project videohistory collection [videorecording], 1987-1990.
Archives
Smithsonian Institution
Capital Gallery, Suite 3000, MRC 507, 600 Maryland Avenue SW, Washington, DC 20024-2520, USA
Milton F. Amrine papers, 1925-1974.
Library. Special Collections Division
Georgetown University
37th and O Streets NW, Washington, DC 20057, USA
MIT Office of the Provost records of Walter A. Rosenblith, 1958-1980.
Institute Archives and Special Collections
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
M.I.T. Libraries, Rm. 14N-118, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
Murray Gell-Mann papers, 1931-2001 (bulk 1955-1993).
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Niels Bohr collection of manuscripts by other authors, 1910-1961.
Niels Bohr Archive
Blegdamsvej 17, Copenhagen, Denmark
Niels Bohr scientific correspondence, supplement, 1910-1962.
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Blegdamsvej 17, Copenhagen, Denmark
Notes on physics courses given at Los Alamos, 1943-1946.
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Obituary notice for Niels Bohr, from the Tallahassee Democrat, with tributes by Hans Bethe, Glenn Seaborg, and John Cockcroft and Hideki Yukawa, 1962.
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Oral history interview with A. B. Migdal, 1977 May 25.
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Oral history interview with Andrea Dupree, 2007 October 29.
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Oral history interview with Bengt Georg Daniel Strömgren, 1976 May 6 and 13.
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Oral history interview with Bengt Georg Daniel Strömgren, 1978 April 24.
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Oral history interview with Carl Friedrich Weizsacker, 1978 April 18.
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Oral history interview with Charles Christian Lauritsen, 1966 June 27.
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Oral history interview with Christian Møller, 1971 August 25, 26 and October 21.
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Oral history interview with Cyril Stanley Smith, 1976 September 23. Metallurgy and atomic energy policy: typescript (photocopy), 1980.
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Oral history interview with Edoardo Amaldi, 1969 April 9 and 10.
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Oral history interview with Edward Creutz, 2006 January 9 and 10.
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Oral history interview with Edward Teller, 1980 December.
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Oral history interview with Edwin Ernest Salpeter, 1978 March 30.
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Oral history interview with Emil Jan Konopinski, 1982.
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Oral history interview with Eugene Paul Wigner, 1966 November 30.
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Oral history interview with Foster Cary Nix, 1975 June 27.
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Oral history interview with George Gamow, 1968 April 25 and 26.
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Oral history interview with Gregory Breit, 1975 December 8.
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Oral history interview with Harold Warren Lewis, 1986 July 6.
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Oral history interview with Henry Margenau, 1964 May 6.
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Oral history interview with Isidor Isaac Rabi, 1980 February 11 and 21.
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Oral history interview with J. Carson Mark, 1976 June 8.
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Oral history interview with John Archibald Wheeler, 1967 April 5.
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Oral history interview with John J. Livingood, 1977 May 16. Big machine physics at Berkeley, Harvard and Argonne: oral history transcript / John J. Livingood; tape recorded interview conducted by Arthur Norberg on May 16, 1977. History of Science and Technology Program, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, California, 1982.
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Oral history interview with Karl K. Darrow, 1964 April 2 and 10 June.
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Oral history interview with Lee A. DuBridge, 1972 June 9.
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Oral history interview with Lee A. DuBridge, 1987 March 6.
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Oral history interview with Linus Carl Pauling, 1964 March 27.
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Oral history interview with Ludwig Franz Benedikt Biermann, 1984 February 16.
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Oral history interview with Luis Alvarez, 1967 February 14 and 15.
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Oral history interview with Milton Stanley Livingston, 1967 August 21.
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Oral history interview with Norman M. Kroll, 1987 March 29.
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Oral history interview with Paul Peter Ewald, 1959 April 1.
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Oral history interview with Paul Peter Ewald, 1968 May 17 and 24.
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Oral history interview with Philip Morrison, 1967 February 7.
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Oral history interview with Philip Morrison, 2003 February 22 and August 1.
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Oral history interview with Raemer Edgar Schreiber, 1976 February 13.
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Oral history interview with Ray E. Kidder, 2008 April 29.
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Oral history interview with Richard Garwin, 2012 December 20.
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Oral history interview with Richard Phillips Feynman, 1966 March 4 to 4 February 1973.
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Oral History interview with Robert F. Bacher, 1966 June 30.
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Oral History interview with Robert F. Bacher, 1981, 1983.
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Oral History interview with Robert F. Bacher, 1986 February 13.
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Oral history interview with Robert Marshak, 1970 June 15, 16, September 19, and October 4.
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Oral history interview with Robert Serber, 1967 February 10.
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Oral history interview with Roman Jackiw, 2010 August 5.
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Oral history interview with Rudolf Ernst Peierls, 1981 May 13 and July.
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Oral history interview with S. Chandrasekhar, 1977 May 17, 18 and October 31.
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Oral history interview with Sir Nevill Francis Mott, 1963 May 13.
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Oral history interview with Theodore Brewster Taylor, 1989 April 12.
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Oral history interview with Thomas Lauritsen, 1967 February 16.
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Oral history interview with Victor Frederick Weisskopf, 1963 July 10.
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Oral history interview with Victor Frederick Weisskopf, 1966 September 21 and December 5.
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Oral history interview with Vivian Annabelle Johnson, 1981 July 13.
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Oral history interview with Walter Heitler, 1963 March 18 and 19.
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Oral history interview with William A. Fowler, 1983 May 3 - May 31, 1984.
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Oral history interview with William Hunter McCrea, 1978 September 22.
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Oral history interview with Wolfgang Kurt Hermann Panofsky, 1973 May 15 and 1974 March 6 and June 3.
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Outtakes and candid footage from the production of : The world of Enrico Fermi, circa 1930-1968.
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Paul Hartman papers, 1944-1993.
Carl A. Kroch Library. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University
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Philip Morse papers, 1927-1980.
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President's Science Advisory Committee records, 1957-1961.
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Progress: Autobiography of Joseph S. Levinger, 2010.
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Richard Feynman papers, 1933-1965.
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Richard Feynman papers, 1933-1988.
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Robert F. Bacher papers, 1924-1994.
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Rochester Conference on High Energy Nuclear Physics proceedings, 1952 and 1955.
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Sir Rudolf Ernst Peierls papers and correspondence, 1898-1996.
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Stanislaw Ulam papers, 1916-1984.
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Stephane Groueff papers, 1955-1975
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Symposium of the history of physics [videorecording]: the coming of age of nuclear physics - the 1930s.
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Text materials for documentary film: The world of Enrico Fermi, circa 1930-1968.
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The George Gamow Symposium [videorecording] / Produced by George Washington University Physics Dept. ; 1996 April 12.
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The Italian navigator has landed...a half century of nuclear energy [videorecording] / Argonne National Laboratory, producer ; U. S. Dept. of Energy ; Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute ; Power Reactor and Nuclear Development Corporation-Japan, sponsors ; Peter Graves, narrator, 1992.
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The World of Philip Morrison, 1986.
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Theodore Welton memories, circa 1984.
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Thomas Lauritsen papers, 1922-1974 (bulk 1952-1973).
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Videotaped interviews for documentary, Reflections of Einstein,
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Washington Conference on Theoretical Physics records, 1933-1947.
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Washington University audiotape collection [sound recordings], 1946-1991.
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Wolfgang Pauli letters.
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Published Resources
Author
Elementarnaja teorija jadra / G. Bete i F. Morrison ; perevod s anglijskogo O.A. Vladimirovoj.
Elementary nuclear theory / [by] Hans A. Bethe and Philip Morrison.
From a life of physics / H.A. Bethe ... [et al.].
Intermediate quantum mechanics / Hans A. Bethe, Roman W. Jackiw.
Intermediate quantum mechanics / Notes by R.W. Jackiw.
Mesons and fields / [by] Silvan S. Schweber, Hans A. Bethe [and] Frederic De Hoffmann.
Quantum mechanics of one- and two-electron atoms, by Hans A. Bethe and Edwin E. Salpeter.
Selected works of Hans A. Bethe : with commentary / by Hans A. Bethe.
The road from Los Alamos / Hans A. Bethe.
Subject
Atomic fragments : a daughter's questions / Mary Palevsky.
Hans Bethe and his physics / edited by Gerald E. Brown, Chang-Hwan Lee.
Hans Bethe, prophet of energy / Jeremy Bernstein.
Hans Bethe: Superlative scientist, incomparable mentor, humanitarian, friend Physics Today obituary.
Nuclear forces : the making of the physicist Hans Bethe / Silvan S. Schweber.