Hans Bethe - Continuing work on solid state physics (57/158)
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Channel: Web of Stories - Life Stories of Remarkable People · 2017 · Science & Technology
To hear more of Hans Bethe’s stories, go to the playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvgLyzTEmJk&list=PLVV0r6CmEsFyUDSroBQVEcbnNud7I9xom German-born theoretical physicist Hans Bethe (1906-2005) was one of the first scientists to join the Manhattan Project, later strongly advocating nuclear disarmament. In 1967, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for his theory of stellar nucleosynthesis. [Listener: Sam Schweber; date recorded: 1996] TRANSCRIPT: [SS] You indicate you were very much taken up with the new science of nuclear physics which is now made possible by the cyclotrons and neutrons coming into being. But you still carry on your activities in solid state physics. And... Well, I did... I gave theses in solid state physics and one of them to Van der Lage was actually quite a good thesis, in which he expanded my theory of levels in a solid state, level splitting, and actually obtained the wave functions which correspond to various levels, and that was useful.
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