Nuclear Forces

Auteur

Silvan S. Schweber is Professor of Physics and Richard Koret Professor in the History of Ideas, Emeritus, Brandeis University.

Texte du rabat

What drove Nobel-winning physicist Hans Bethe, head of Theoretical Physics at Los Alamos during the Manhattan Project, to later renounce the weaponry he had worked so tirelessly to create? That is one of the questions answered by Nuclear Forces, a riveting biography of Bethe's early life and development as both a scientist and a man of principle.