They included such luminaries as Albert Einstein, Edward Teller, Leo Szilard, John von Neumann, Hans Bethe and Stanisław Ulam among many others. This ended up being Hitler's gift to America which ...

Garwin decided to go public with the arguments against ballistic missile defense and recruited Hans Bethe—a more senior and also independent science advisor who had been the director of the ...

In the spring of 1943, Hans Bethe, a theoretical physicist and professor at Cornell University, left Ithaca, New York, for a classified government site in Los Alamos, New Mexico. Once there, he led ...

Enrico Fermi, who’d recently built the world’s first nuclear reactor, liked to climb mountains with his colleague Hans Bethe, where they could look out at the world from 12,500 feet.

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Quantum calculations amount to sophisticated estimates. But in 1931, Hans Bethe intuited precisely how a chain of particles would behave — an insight that had far-reaching consequences. By 1928, ...

One of Nazi Germany’s greatest gifts to the U. S. is Professor Hans Albrecht Bethe of Cornell University. A brilliant theorist in atomic physics, modest, demure Dr. Bethe probes straight to the ...

Hans Bethe, who fled Nazi Germany to become a key figure in the development of the first atomic bomb, has died at his home in Ithaca, US, aged 98. During WWII, Bethe joined the Manhattan Project at ...

In the 1940s, a physicist named George Gamow decided it would be fun to add the name of an eminent friend, Hans Bethe, to a paper that Gamow and his student, Ralph Alpher, had written on the origi ...

Fellow Nobel Laureate Hans Bethe said of Feynman that he was not only a genius but also a magician because "a magician does things that nobody else could ever do and that seem completely unexpected ...

Well, no. Oppenheimer wasn’t even the most important scientist at Los Alamos. Hans Bethe, Enrico Fermi, Richard Feynman and Edward Teller, to name but a few, made more important contributions to ...