During the Cold War, two physicists became public "opponents" of the Pentagon's antiballistic missile systems. But they kept ...

HOW does the sun shine? It is perhaps one of the first questions a curious child asks about the world, and one that has impelled many a curious child to physics. And, until 1938, it was something that ...

Hans Bethe, a giant of 20th-century physics who played a central role in the building of the atomic bomb and won a Nobel Prize for discovering the process that powers the sun and the stars, has died ...

Hans Bethe, who died Sunday at his home in Ithaca, N.Y., at age 98, was the last of the titans of 20th-century physics. In a career that stretched from the 1920s into the new millennium, Bethe made ...

Must a great scientist also be a mensch? The historian of science, Silvan Schweber, who teaches at Harvard and Brandeis, has offered some ideal examples in such previous books as “Einstein and ...

Hans Bethe, the last of the giants of 20th century physics who explained the energy source that powers the stars and helped develop the atom bomb, but devoted decades of his life to nuclear arms ...

Born in Strasbourg, Germany in 1906, Hans Bethe grew up fascinated by the world of physics. After studying at the Goethe University of Frankfurt, Bethe earned his doctorate from the University of ...

Schweber’s account of Hans Bethe’s life through his Nobel Prize–winning 1938 work on energy generation in stars reveals the origins of a charismatic scientist, grounded in the importance of his ...

Hans Bethe, a scrupulously open-minded Nobel Prize winner who was perhaps the last survivor of the scientific titans who created nuclear physics and nuclear weapons, died March 5 at his home in Ithaca ...

May I add to Brian Cathcart's excellent obituary of Hans Bethe [9 March]? writes Professor Ernst Sondheimer. Before turning to nuclear physics in the 1930s, Bethe also did important work in what is ...

Hans Bethe won the Nobel Prize for solving a riddle of nature that had puzzled humankind for millennia: what is it that makes the sun shine and the stars twinkle? It was just one of several ...