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Hans Bethe - Nobel prize winners here at Cornell (120/158)

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Channel: Web of Stories - Life Stories of Remarkable People · 2017 · Science & Technology

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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: In another part of our department condensed matter physics is being done. And that is... that has led to this year's 1996 Nobel Prizes which in fact were given yesterday, December 10th, to two professors of condensed matter physics of Cornell, Lee and Richardson, and to their former graduate student, Osheroff, now at Stanford University. They jointly discovered that liquid helium of atomic weight 3 becomes superfluid at fantastically low temperatures, at temperatures in micro degrees, a few millionth of a degree Kelvin. Then in addition we had Kenneth Wilson, not to be confused with Robert Wilson. Kenneth Wilson came here as a theoretical physicist and pursued the idea of renormalization of the infinities of quantum electrodynamics and similar theories further, and found that there is a whole group of renormalization and he was able in this way to explain the phenomena of a gas near its critical point where liquid and... and gas flow into each other and he received the Nobel Prize for that several years ago.

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