SETI bioastro: Fw: Featuring Cornell: Bethe celebration

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    Cornell to honor famed son Hans Bethe
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    Sept. 14, 2005

    By Lauren Gold
    lg34_at_cornell.edu<mailto:lg34_at_cornell.edu>

    ITHACA, N.Y. -- The world will long remember Hans Bethe -- for his
    unparalleled contributions to physics, his advocacy for peace and his
    generosity of spirit.

    This Sunday, Sept. 18, Cornell University will hold a celebration of
    Bethe's life. The event, at 2 p.m. in Statler Hall Auditorium, will
    include tributes from some of Bethe's closest colleagues and
    proteges. The public is invited to attend, without charge.

    Bethe, who came to Cornell in 1935, was awarded the Nobel Prize for
    physics in 1967 for explaining the process that powers the stars. He
    was a key figure in the Manhattan Project, and 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.

    "Hans Bethe participated actively in many different communities: the
    world of physics, the university faculty, disarmament and national
    defense policy, science advice to the [U.S.] president," said Dale
    R. Corson, Cornell University president emeritus and former physics
    department chair. "In every one of these communities his intellectual
    impact was enormous. In addition, he was the moralist and the
    ethicist. He was the community's conscience."

    Speakers at Sunday's celebration will include Corson, Cornell
    President Hunter R. Rawlings, Cornell astrophysicists Edwin Salpeter
    and Saul Teukolsky, and Institute for Advanced Study physicist
    Freeman Dyson. A two-DVD set, "Remembering Hans Bethe," will be
    available without charge after the celebration.

    In tribute, a special supplement: "Hans Bethe: A Celebration of His
    Life and Times," will be included in the Thursday, Sept. 15, issue of
    the Cornell Chronicle.

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    Phone: (607) 254-8093
    E-mail: bpf2_at_cornell.edu<mailto:bpf2_at_cornell.edu>

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