Hans Bethe
Posted: July 20, 2023 Filed under: America Since 1945 Leave a comment
Enrapt listening to Richard Rhodes on Lunar Society podcast (part of the Oppenheimer mania that’s sweeping the land). Rhodes is trying to describe how Oppenheimer could be condescending.
I mean…
says Rhodes, (I paraphrase)
Oppenheimer was condescending to Hans Bethe. And Bethe won a Nobel Prize because he figured out how the sun works.
Credit Sarang on Wikipedia for that beauty.
Think of Bethe, born in Strasbourg. If Germany’s Jewish physicists hadn’t fled it feels likely the Nazis might’ve gotten the atomic bomb first.
Helytimes 