Talk:Hans Bethe

"Alpha beta gamma" paper
What, no mention of the famous "alpha beta gamma" paper by Alpher, Bethe and Gamow? &mdash; J I P | Talk 13:44, 10 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Nature claims errors
Nature disputes the accuracy of this article; see http://www.nature.com/news/2005/051212/multimedia/438900a_m1.html and External_peer_review. We're hoping they will provide a list of the alleged errors soon. —Steven G. Johnson 01:49, 15 December 2005 (UTC)
 * [Alpher, Bethe (in absentia), and Gamow] is the proper citation; it was Gamow's joke, not Bethe's. --Ancheta Wis 02:50, 15 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Actually you could argue that the [2nd spoof paper] is a misnumbering because the [Alpher - Gamow] paper is genuine; it is only the attribution to Bethe that is humorous. --Ancheta Wis 03:34, 15 December 2005 (UTC)

Nature errors to correct

 * It is not really accurate to say that Bethe discovered "stellar nucleosyntheis" He showed how nuclear reactions accounted for the energy output from stars.
 * Robert Wilson was not at Cornell before WWII; he came in 1947 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Zanimum (talk • contribs) 18:33, 22 December 2005 (UTC)


 * Well I got the first one already. As for the latter, I guess the word "later" was not strong enough for their fact-checkers. --Fastfission 18:54, 22 December 2005 (UTC)

Dyson Quote
I added the nice quote of Freeman Dyson who called Bethe "the supreme problem solver of the 20th century." Science History 13:56, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

Projectile Penetration Research
On reading in the Encyclopedia Britannia that projectile penetration was little understood Hans Bethe made a mathematical analysis useful enough to predict and compare to experimental results. []Larry R. Holmgren 20:07, 12 June 2007 (UTC)
 * "In 1939 Bethe calculated the Sun's energy production, which results from the fusion of four hydrogen atoms (each of mass 1.008) into one helium atom (mass 4.0039). No direct fusion is possible, but Bethe showed that the probabilities of the four steps of the "carbon cycle" can account for the energy output. A carbon isotope of mass 12 reacts successively with three hydrogen nuclei (protons) to form the nitrogen isotope of mass 15; energy is produced through the fusion of a fourth hydrogen nucleus to release a helium nucleus (alpha particle) and the original carbon isotope."


 * "Bethe became a U.S. citizen in 1941. At the beginning of World War II, Bethe had no U.S. clearance for military work. But, after reading in the Encyclopedia Britannica that the armour-piercing mechanism of grenades was not well understood, he formulated a theory that became the foundation for research on the problem. His work, unpublished except in classified reports, illustrated his faculty for developing highly mathematical theories to the point that their numerical results could be compared with the actual measurements."


 * "After working at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on the development of radar, Bethe headed the Theoretical Physics Division of the Manhattan Project in Los Alamos, N.M. The development of the atomic bomb and the dropping of it on Hiroshima and Nagasaki created a strong feeling of social responsibility in Bethe and other Los Alamos physicists. He was one of the organizers and original contributors to The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. Moreover, he lectured and wrote on the nuclear threat in order to increase public awareness of it." — Preceding unsigned comment added by Larry R. Holmgren (talk • contribs) 20:13, 12 June 2007 (UTC)

Straßburg
He was born in Strasbourg, France ; at the time of his birth Strassburg, Germany. No, he was born in Straßburg/Strassburg, Germany! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.221.119.227 (talk) 10:33, 18 July 2009 (UTC)

I am not a Philosopher
Would this count as a citation: http://www.news.cornell.edu/chronicle/05/3.10.05/Bethe.html — Preceding unsigned comment added by Zerakith (talk • contribs) 12:03, 14 April 2011 (UTC)

Birthplace
Seems an anon is insisting that Bethe was born in Straßburg, Austria, rather than Strasbourgh, Germany/France. Perhaps the [ Nobel biography] would convince. Vsmith (talk) 21:14, 13 August 2013 (UTC)http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1967/bethe-bio.html


 * If it was Alsace-Lorraine the current one is correct, I believe. Jamesx12345 21:37, 13 August 2013 (UTC)

Hilde Levi
The following passage is in the article on Hilde Levi: "She became engaged to the physicist Hans Bethe in 1934.[4] The two had known each other since 1925.[6] However, his mother, although herself Jewish, was opposed to her son marrying a Jewish girl, and he broke off the engagement a few days before the wedding was to take place.[4] Bethe's action shocked Franck and Bohr. Although an eminent physicist, Bethe would not be invited to visit the Niels Bohr Institute until after the Second World War.[7]" — Preceding unsigned comment added by 120.18.162.98 (talk) 04:20, 18 October 2013 (UTC)

External link?
Would an interview with transcript with Hans Bethe from 1986 be useful here as an external link? Focus of conversation is nuclear weapons policy. http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_4883F5B3D049498CA208AFD5B9545FCC (I have a conflict of interest; otherwise I would add it myself.) Mccallucc (talk) 17:49, 23 March 2016 (UTC)
 * ✅ Added. I like external links where the reader can actually see and hear the subject. There are a few there already, but one more won't hurt. Hawkeye7 (talk) 21:53, 23 March 2016 (UTC)

Assessment comment
Substituted at 17:06, 29 April 2016 (UTC)
 * ✅ Was given high importance back in 2007. Hawkeye7 (talk) 21:24, 29 April 2016 (UTC)

"Lamb shift" section needs clarification
I have read the section of this article titled "Lamb shift" several times and continue to find it confusing. In the sentence "Pre-war quantum electrodynamics (QED) gave absurd, infinite values for this; but the Lamb shift showed that it was both real and finite," it is not clear what the antecedent of either "this" or "it" might be. As a result, when the next paragraph announces that Bethe worked out "the calculation," it is not clear what calculation is being discussed. Can this be clarified? Thanks. blameless 19:34, 11 January 2021 (UTC)


 * So you checked the cited sources? Bethe's paper is very short and easy to understand, although you may wish to perform the calculation yourself. I have re-worked the two paragraphs to remove pronouns, although I think what they referred to was clear enough, and there is only only calculation. Work through it step by step, following the paper. Hawkeye7   (discuss)  20:36, 11 January 2021 (UTC)

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Rose Ewald Becoming a Centenarian
I think it is reasonable to add this to Personal Life -- his wife not only survived him but did so by almost 2 decades and at her death was probably one of the very last people to have met some of the great scientists of not just the early 20th century but even of the mid to late 19th century. 50.230.251.244 (talk) 20:51, 29 September 2022 (UTC)