Hans A. Bethe. July 2, 1906 March 6, Celebrating An Exemplary Life. Statler Auditorium, 2pm, September 18, 2005

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1 Hans A. Bethe July 2, 1906 March 6, 2005 Celebrating An Exemplary Life Statler Auditorium, 2pm, September 18, 2005 Hunter R. Rawlings III, President, Cornell University

2 Celebrating An Exemplary Life Program Statler Auditorium, 2pm, September 18, 2005 Hunter R. Rawlings III, President, Cornell University Silvan S. Schweber, Professor Emeritus, Brandeis University Physicist, historian and Bethe biographer Richard L. Garwin, IBM Fellow Emeritus Physicist, Bethe arms control collaborator Kurt Gottfried, Professor Emeritus, Cornell University Physicist, Bethe arms control collaborator Video Interlude Dale R. Corson, President Emeritus, Cornell University Physicist, Bethe colleague Edwin E. Salpeter, Professor Emeritus, Cornell University Astrophysicist, Bethe scientific collaborator

3 Kurt Gottfried, Professor Emeritus, Cornell University Physicist, Bethe arms control collaborator Video Interlude Dale R. Corson, President Emeritus, Cornell University Physicist, Bethe colleague Edwin E. Salpeter, Professor Emeritus, Cornell University Astrophysicist, Bethe scientific collaborator Freeman J. Dyson, Professor Emeritus, Institute for Advanced Study Physicist and writer, Bethe colleague Henry Bethe Rose Bethe Saul A. Teukolsky, Physics Department Chair, Cornell University Piano: Alan Giambattista, Sr. Lecturer in Physics, Cornell University Video compilation: Professor J. Robert Cooke, Cornell University Reception following in the Statler Ballroom A special supplement to the Cornell Chronicle dedicated to Hans Bethe,

4 Freeman J. Dyson, Professor Emeritus, Institute for Advanced Study Physicist and writer, Bethe colleague Henry Bethe Rose Bethe Saul A. Teukolsky, Physics Department Chair, Cornell University Piano: Alan Giambattista, Sr. Lecturer in Physics, Cornell University Video compilation: Professor J. Robert Cooke, Cornell University Reception following in the Statler Ballroom A special supplement to the Cornell Chronicle dedicated to Hans Bethe, And a 2-DVD set Remembering Hans Bethe, will be available without charge in The Ballroom Foyer after the Celebration.

5 Credits Thanks to Kurt Gottfried and Dale R. Corson for their pivotal roles in this project.

6 Thanks also to Ross Atkinson Elaine Engst Eric Gasteiger Debra Hatfield Kenneth M. King John Miner Susette Newberry Chad O Shea Glen Palmer Saul Teukolsky

7 Thanks also to The American Institute of Physics for permission to include on this DVD the Physics Today s October 2005 Special Issue: Hans Bethe articles and to the authors: Kurt Gottfried, Guest Editor Special Issue: Hans Bethe Silvan S. Schweber, The Happy Thirties John N. Bachall and Edwin Salpeter Stellar Energy Generation and Solar Neutrinos Freeman Dyson Hans Bethe and Quantum Electrodynamics Richard Garwin and Kurt Gottfried Hans in War and Peace John W. Negele Hans Bethe and the Theory of Nuclear Matter Gerald E. Brown Hans Bethe and Astrophysical Theory

8 These articles are reprinted on this dvd with permission from Physics Today. Copyright 2005, American Institute of Physics. These articles may be downloaded for personal use only, any other use requires prior permission of the author and the American Institute of Physics. home page of Physics Today, (These articles are contained as PDF files on the ROM portion of this DVD and require a computer to be read, i.e., cannot be played on a DVD Player.)

9 John W. Negele and Michael Nauenberg graciously provided their candid photographs from the September 18, 2005 celebration.

10 The Special Supplement, Hans Bethe: Celebration of His Life and Times, from the September 15, 2005 issue of the Cornell Chronicle is included as a PDF in the ROM portion of this DVD. David Brand, editor Lauren Gold, writer Dennis Kulis, designer Karen Walters, copy editor Joe Wilensky, Chronicle Editor The file cannot be displayed using a DVD Player, but requires a computer.

11 The Video Interlude was excerpted from "I Can Do That!" : Hans Bethe's First 60 Years at Cornell, a video produced by Rose Films with Executive Producer Edward Hershey, Cornell Communications and Marketing Services and the closing is from My Life in Physics, The Martin A. Fisher Lecture in Physics at Brandeis University by Hans A. Bethe with introduction by Silvan Schweber Recorded and edited by Brandeis University Video Services

12 Videography and Editing: The Educational Television Center Cornell University DVD created for The Internet-First University Press Cornell University by J. Robert Cooke

13 This dvd was created as part of a project sponsored by the Atlantic Philanthropies to encourage and promote open access publishing in higher education. The online content of The Internet-First University Press is freely available for personal usage at A lower resolution version of this video, and several related Hans Bethe videos can be viewed worldwide without access fee by directing a web browser to:

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