Hans A. Bethe
July 2, 1906 – March 6, 2005
Celebrating “An Exemplary Life”
Statler Auditorium, 2pm, September 18, 2005
Hunter R. Rawlings III, President, Cornell University
Celebrating “An Exemplary Life”
Program
Statler Auditorium, 2pm, September 18, 2005
Hunter R. Rawlings III, President, Cornell University
Silvan S. Schweber, Professor Emeritus, Brandeis University
Physicist, historian and Bethe biographer
Richard L. Garwin, IBM Fellow Emeritus
Physicist, Bethe arms control collaborator
Kurt Gottfried, Professor Emeritus, Cornell University
Physicist, Bethe arms control collaborator
Video Interlude
Dale R. Corson, President Emeritus, Cornell University
Physicist, Bethe colleague
Edwin E. Salpeter, Professor Emeritus, Cornell University
Astrophysicist, Bethe scientific collaborator
Kurt Gottfried, Professor Emeritus, Cornell University
Physicist, Bethe arms control collaborator
Video Interlude
Dale R. Corson, President Emeritus, Cornell University
Physicist, Bethe colleague
Edwin E. Salpeter, Professor Emeritus, Cornell University
Astrophysicist, Bethe scientific collaborator
Freeman J. Dyson, Professor Emeritus, Institute for Advanced Study
Physicist and writer, Bethe colleague
Henry Bethe
Rose Bethe
Saul A. Teukolsky, Physics Department Chair, Cornell University
Piano: Alan Giambattista, Sr. Lecturer in Physics, Cornell University
Video compilation: Professor J. Robert Cooke, Cornell University
Reception following in the Statler Ballroom
A special supplement to the Cornell Chronicle dedicated to Hans Bethe,
Freeman J. Dyson, Professor Emeritus, Institute for Advanced Study
Physicist and writer, Bethe colleague
Henry Bethe
Rose Bethe
Saul A. Teukolsky, Physics Department Chair, Cornell University
Piano: Alan Giambattista, Sr. Lecturer in Physics, Cornell University
Video compilation: Professor J. Robert Cooke, Cornell University
Reception following in the Statler Ballroom
A special supplement to the Cornell Chronicle dedicated to Hans Bethe,
And a 2-DVD set “Remembering Hans Bethe”, will be available without charge in
The Ballroom Foyer after the Celebration.
Credits
Thanks to
Kurt Gottfried
and
Dale R. Corson
for their pivotal roles in
this project.
Thanks also to
Ross Atkinson
Elaine Engst
Eric Gasteiger
Debra Hatfield
Kenneth M. King
John Miner
Susette Newberry
Chad O’Shea
Glen Palmer
Saul Teukolsky
Thanks also to
The American Institute of Physics
for permission to include on this DVD
the Physics Today’s October 2005 ‘Special Issue: Hans Bethe’ articles
and to the authors:
Kurt Gottfried, Guest Editor
Special Issue: Hans Bethe
Silvan S. Schweber,
“The Happy Thirties”
John N. Bachall and Edwin Salpeter
“Stellar Energy Generation and Solar Neutrinos”
Freeman Dyson
“Hans Bethe and Quantum Electrodynamics”
Richard Garwin and Kurt Gottfried
“Hans in War and Peace”
John W. Negele
“Hans Bethe and the Theory of Nuclear Matter”
Gerald E. Brown
“Hans Bethe and Astrophysical Theory”
These articles are reprinted on this dvd
with permission from Physics Today.
Copyright 2005, American Institute of Physics.
These articles may be downloaded for personal use only,
any other use requires prior permission of the author
and the American Institute of Physics.
home page of Physics Today , www.physicstoday.org
(These articles are contained as PDF files
on the ROM portion of this DVD and require a computer
to be read, i.e., cannot be played on a DVD Player.)
John W. Negele and Michael Nauenberg
graciously provided their candid photographs
from the September 18, 2005 celebration.
The Special Supplement,
“Hans Bethe: Celebration of His Life and Times”,
from the September 15, 2005 issue of the
Cornell Chronicle is included as a PDF
in the ROM portion of this DVD.
David Brand, editor
Lauren Gold, writer
Dennis Kulis, designer
Karen Walters, copy editor
Joe Wilensky, Chronicle Editor
The file cannot be displayed using a
DVD Player, but requires a computer.
The Video Interlude was excerpted from
"I Can Do That!" : Hans Bethe's First 60 Years at Cornell,
a video produced by Rose Films with Executive Producer Edward
Hershey, Cornell Communications and Marketing Services
and the closing is from “My Life in Physics”,
The Martin A. Fisher Lecture in Physics at Brandeis University
by Hans A. Bethe
with introduction by Silvan Schweber
Recorded and edited by Brandeis University Video Services
Videography and Editing:
The Educational Television Center
Cornell University
DVD created for
The Internet-First University Press
Cornell University
by J. Robert Cooke
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Atlantic Philanthropies to encourage and promote
open access publishing in higher education.
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The Internet-First University Press
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http://dspace.library.cornell.edu/handle/1813/62
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Hans Bethe videos can be viewed worldwide
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Cornell University
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