Volume 47, Number 8 · May 11, 2000
Creators of the Bomb
By Jeremy Bernstein
In the Shadow of the Bomb: Oppenheimer, Bethe, and the Moral Responsibility of the Scientist
by S.S. Schweber
Princeton University Press, 260 pp., $29.95
In the preface to In the Shadow of the Bomb, the physicist and historian of science Sylvan S. Schweber tells us that ten years ago Hans Bethe asked him to write Bethe's 'intellectual biography.' This turned out to be a monumental task since Bethe, who is now in his early nineties and still very active, has in the last seven decades made profound contributions to almost all branches of physics. Schweber realized that it would take several volumes to describe Bethe's work and that in the end it might not have much interest for nonspecialist readers.
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