Article ID: CBB001451250

Writing the Biography of Hans Bethe: Contextual History and Paul Forman (2014)

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Some facets of the life of Hans Bethe after World War II are presented to illustrate how Paul Forman's works, and in particular his various theses---on mathematics and physics in Wilhelmine and Weimar Germany, on physics in the immediate post-World War II period, and on postmodernity---have influenced my biography of Bethe. Some aspects of the history of post-World War II quantum field theory, of solid state/condensed matter physics, and of the development of neoliberalism---the commitment to the belief that the market knows best, to free trade, to enhanced privatization, and to a drastic reduction of the government's role in regulating the economy---are reviewed in order to make some observations regarding certain top-down views in solid state physics in postmodernity, the economic and cultural condition of many Western societies since the 1980s, the decade in which many historians assume modernity to have ended.

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Authors & Contributors
Fontes, Christopher J.
Bostock, Christopher J.
Bartschat, Klaus
Walker, Mark
Schweber, Silvan Sam
Hoffmann, Dieter
Concepts
Physics
Atomic, nuclear, and particle physics
Biographies
Quantum mechanics
Science and politics
Nuclear weapons; atomic weapons
Time Periods
20th century
20th century, early
20th century, late
Places
Germany
England
Ukraine
United States
Japan
Italy
Institutions
Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft (DPG)
Kaiser-Wilhelm-Institut für Chemie
Cornell University
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