World Scientific, 2006. — 314 p.
At the age of 97, the Nobel laureate Hans Bethe asked his long-term collaborator, Gerry Brown, to explain his physics to the world. A glance at Hans Bethe's published legacy — almost eight decades of original research, hundreds of scientific papers, numerous books, countless reports spanning the key areas of twentieth-century physics — is sufficient to realise that this was no mean task. In answering Bethe's request, the editors enlisted the help of experts in the different research fields, collaborators and friends of this "last giant" of twentieth-century physics.
Hans Bethe and His Physics is the result, and while the book's primary aim was to explain the science behind the man, the different contributions also allow the reader to take a glimpse at the man behind the science.
Hans Bethe and His Physics (by Gerald E. Brown)
My Life in Astrophysics (by Hans A. Bethe)
Three Weeks with Hans Bethe (by Christoph Adami)
Hans Bethe at
The New Yorker (by Jeremy Bernstein)
My Sixty Years with Hans Bethe (by Edwin E. Salpeter)
Hans Bethe (by Kurt Gottfried)
"The Happy Thirties" (by Silvan S. Schweber)
Stellar Energy Generation and Solar Neutrinos (by John N. Bahcall and Edwin E. Salpeter)
Hans Bethe and Quantum Electrodynamics (by Freeman Dyson)
Hans Bethe and the Theory of Nuclear Matter (by John W. Negele)
Hans Bethe and Astrophysical Theory (by Gerald E. Brown)
Bethe's Hypothesis (by Chen Ning Yang and Mo-Lin Ge)
Hans Bethe's Contributions to Solid-State Physics (by N. David Mermin and Neil W. Ashcroft)
Hans Bethe and the Nuclear Many-Body Problem (by Jeremy Holt and Gerald E. Brown)
And Don't Forget the Black Holes (with Commentary) (by Hans A. Bethe, Gerald E. Brown and Chang-Hwan Lee)
Shaping Public Policy (by Sidney Drell)
Hans Bethe and the Global Energy Problems (by Boris Ioffe)
In Memoriam: Hans Bethe (by Richard L. Garwin and Frank von Hippel)
Obituary: Hans A. Bethe (by Kurt Gottfried)
List of Publications of Hans A. Bethe