Oral history interview with Hans Bethe, 1966 October 27 to 9 May 1972.

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Oral history interview with Hans Bethe, 1966 October 27 to 9 May 1972.

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Natural radioactivity; ideas of nuclear constitution and size in 1920s; Gamow-Condon-Gurney theory of alpha decay, 1928; discovery of neutron, 1932; University of Cambridge as center of research, 1933; early theories of nuclear forces; analysis of short-range nuclear forces, 1935-1940; reasons for writing articles in Reviews of Modern Physics, 1935-1937, and detailed review of contents of articles; beta decay and the neutrino hypothesis; application to nuclear physics of group-theoretic methods, 1936-1937; compound nucleus model, 1936; nuclear models in general (compound nucleus, evaporation, liquid drop, direct interaction, statistical); contemporary knowledge of nuclear physics, 1938-1939; stellar energy production; energy limit on cyclotron; accelerators and theoreticians; nuclear physics at Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory; postwar conferences; origins and development of the shell model of the nucleus; many-body theory in nuclear physics; current algebras in particle physics; origins and development of the optical model and the collective model; autobiographical comments on political, social, and scientific conditions in Germany and England in the early 1930s; nuclear studies at Cornell University after the war; building the H-bomb; the J. Robert Oppenheimer hearings; work as a consultant, 1950-1970; involvement with the President's Science Advisory Committee (PSAC), 1956; views on disarmament; Nobel Prize in 1967.Copy also available at Cornell University, John M. Olin Library, Ithaca, NY.

Sound recordings: 9 5-inch sound reels (ca. 20.0 hrs.), 3 sessions.Transcript: 258 p.

American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library

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