From: LARRY KLAES (ljk4_at_msn.com)
Date: Wed Sep 07 2005 - 21:08:34 UTC
>From: cunews_at_cornell.edu
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>Subject: Featuring Cornell: Hans Bethe memorial
>Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2005 16:10:32 -0400
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>Cornell to celebrate the life of Hans Bethe
>http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/Sept05/Bethe.memorial.advance.lg.html
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>Sept. 7, 2005
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>By Lauren Gold
>lg34_at_cornell.edu
>
>
>ITHACA, N.Y. -- He was one of Cornell University's most beloved and
>esteemed scientists -- a man lauded both for his intellectual brilliance
>and his dedication to creating a more peaceful world.
>
>Next week, the Cornell community and distinguished visitors will gather to
>remember Hans Bethe. The free and open event, on Sept. 18 at 2 p.m. in the
>Statler Auditorium, will include appreciations from some of Bethe's closest
>colleagues, friends and proteges. It will be followed by a reception in the
>Statler Ballroom.
>
>Bethe, who came to Cornell in 1935 when Hitler's racial laws barred him
>from his teaching position in Germany, was awarded the Nobel Prize for
>physics in 1967 for explaining the process that powers the stars. Appointed
>chief of the Los Alamos National Laboratory's Theoretical Division in 1942,
>he was a key figure in the Manhattan Project, helping to build and
>successfully test the first nuclear weapon. In the years that followed, he
>was a dedicated advocate of peace and nuclear nonproliferation.
>
>Bethe's scientific work led to the creation of the field of quantum
>electrodynamics. His activism contributed to the 1963 Limited Test Ban
>Treaty. "His was a rich life, nobly and generously lived," said Cornell
>President Emeritus Frank H.T. Rhodes. "I don't know how you do justice to
>all the greatness that is Hans Bethe."
>
>Speakers at the event will include Cornell astrophysicist Edwin Salpeter,
>Princeton physicist Freeman Dyson and IBM physicist Richard Garwin.
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