Hans Bethe - Hiring Robert Bacher to Cornell (53/158)
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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: They wanted one more experimental physicist and we had a choice between, well, Gibbs... Gibbs asked me immediately to consult with him whom we should get, and there was a list of people finally narrowed to two, and among the two we thought the most lively would be Robert Bacher, who had started as a spectroscopist, who knew some theory, who was then instructor at Columbia and who was very happy to accept, I think again an instructorship here at... at Cornell. And this became a lasting friendship. Bacher came here and he was much more knowledgeable about physics than Livingston, and less good in doing... making apparatus. So the two formed a very good team and so we all three got together and worked together a great deal.
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