tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9633767.post2488777671694261296..comments2024-03-18T06:11:04.848-07:00Comments on The Curious Wavefunction: "Understand what I love about America": Physicist Hans Bethe's moving letter to his teacher Arnold SommerfeldWavefunctionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14993805391653267639noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9633767.post-66859738133228309512016-08-19T12:55:46.114-07:002016-08-19T12:55:46.114-07:00Thanks for the excellent reference. I will take a ...Thanks for the excellent reference. I will take a look at Einstein's papers.Wavefunctionhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14993805391653267639noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9633767.post-71440791166273814212016-08-18T09:41:06.565-07:002016-08-18T09:41:06.565-07:00Einstein's letter to Max Planck's widow up...Einstein's letter to Max Planck's widow upon Planck's death is also worth quoting. I've seen the whole thing, but can't find a copy; only this excerpt. Planck, of course, also stayed in Germany during the Nazi era, and died about a month before Einstein wrote the letter. It has a somewhat different tone than Bethe's letter to Sommerfeld, but then again it was not in response to an offer to return to Germany.<br /><br />"It was a fine and productive time that I was allowed to witness in his vicinity.... The hours that I was granted in your home and the many conversations I conducted in private with that wonderful man will remain among my finest memories for the rest of my life. The fact that a tragic fate tore us apart cannot change it." (AE to Marga Planck, November 10, 1947)samadamsthedoghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01310722213367887375noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9633767.post-88969589280230958662016-07-21T11:49:26.654-07:002016-07-21T11:49:26.654-07:00"Bethe won the Nobel Prize in 1968 " is ..."Bethe won the Nobel Prize in 1968 " is incorrect<br /><br />1967.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9633767.post-23151939306587751402016-06-02T10:17:20.113-07:002016-06-02T10:17:20.113-07:00Bethe's contribution to CFT needs to be better...Bethe's contribution to CFT needs to be better appreciated. Maybe I will write a post sometime.Wavefunctionhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14993805391653267639noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9633767.post-43464841024141100492016-06-02T10:16:58.605-07:002016-06-02T10:16:58.605-07:00It's from Silvan Schweber's biography of B...It's from Silvan Schweber's biography of Bethe: "Nuclear Forces".Wavefunctionhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14993805391653267639noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9633767.post-77919310734814923292016-06-02T10:06:10.937-07:002016-06-02T10:06:10.937-07:00Thanks. Can you give the source of the letter (e.g...Thanks. Can you give the source of the letter (e.g., from which book)?Dam T. Sonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00159709575863110381noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9633767.post-32661920783116580182016-06-02T07:15:55.951-07:002016-06-02T07:15:55.951-07:00He can also be considered as the "father"...He can also be considered as the "father" of Crystal Field Theory.<br /><br />In his Memoirs, Edward Teller says "Before I was ten, I understood that in the United States foreigners are not foreign." I guess they had similar feelings about the US.Chemdiaryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06428076032546974013noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9633767.post-30769253173950520082016-06-02T05:43:08.534-07:002016-06-02T05:43:08.534-07:00Thanks Gene. Corrected now.Thanks Gene. Corrected now.Wavefunctionhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14993805391653267639noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9633767.post-52276609647197254242016-06-01T21:56:05.081-07:002016-06-01T21:56:05.081-07:00Thanks, Ash, I like this. But if I may offer a cor...Thanks, Ash, I like this. But if I may offer a correction, Bethe was fired in the mass dismissals of Jewish academics in April-May 1933, not 1935.Gene Dannenhttp://www.dannen.com/noreply@blogger.com