Nuclear Forces: The Making of the Physicist Hans Bethe

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.

• | Author: Silvan S. Schweber
• | Publisher: Harvard University Press
• | Publication Date: June 18, 2012
• | Number of Pages: 608 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 0674065875
• | ISBN-13: 9780674065871