The Net Advance of Physics:

In Memoriam: Hans Albrecht Bethe (1906-2005)

• Science publications:
  1. Obituary from Cornell University [SpaceRef.com]
  2. Obituary by Mark Peplow [Nature]
  3. Obituary by Edwin Cartlidge [IoP Physics Web]
  4. Short obituary by Linda Raber of Chemical and Engineering News [C & E News]
  5. A Tribute to Hans Bethe [Office of Science, U. S. Department of Energy]
• Wire services:
  1. Obituary by Ben Dobbin of the Associated Press [MSNBC]
  2. Short Obituary United Press International [Sci-Tech Today]
• Major Anglophone newspapers:
  1. Obituary [The Times of London]
  2. Obituary by William J. Broad [The New York Times]
  3. Obituary [The Telegraph]
  4. Obituary by Anthony Tucker of The Guardian [The Guardian Unlimited]
  5. Obituary by Martin Weil of The Washington Post [Washington Post]
  6. Obituary by David Perlman of The San Francisco Chronicle [The San Francisco Chronicle]
  7. Obituary by Thomas H. Maugh II and K. C. Cole of The Chicago Tribune [The Chicago Tribune]
• German-language publications:
  1. Todesanzeige (German language) [Der Spiegel]
  2. Todesanzeige von Rainer Kayser (German language) [Astronews]
• Other Anglophone media:
  1. Short death notice with link to audio file by Joe Palca [NPR]
  2. Obituary with a picture of Bethe and of the Trinity blast [BBC]
  3. Obituary by Andrew Alden [About.com]
• Miscellaneous web sites:
  1. A Tribute to Hans Bethe an article by Brian Hall, first printed in Cornell Magazine with quotes from Bethe and people who knew him [The Manhattan Project Heritage Preservation Association]
  2. Brief comment by Mark Zimmermann. (Bloggy piece with a good photo of Bethe at Rice University in 1973) [ZhurnalWiki]

• Biography from Los Alamos staff directory [Los Alamos National Laboratory]
• Personal and Historical Perspectives of Hans Bethe with links to videos of three lectures given in 1999, with an introduction and commentary by Silvan Schweber and Edwin Salpeter [Cornell University]
• Brief Biography by Edward A. Baron 2006/02
• Biography a short overview of his life and accomplishments with both on- and off-line sources for further reading (including Silvan Schweber's book) [Wikipedia]
• Biography with links to photographs and related sites [Atomic Archive]
• Biography with résumé-style information [NNBD]
• Brief biography from The American Experience (not updated) [PBS]
• Brief biography Eric Weisstein's World of Biography (not updated) [Wolfram Research]
• Brief biography [Everything2.com]
• Biografía (Spanish language, not updated) [Astro-Cosmo]

• Nobel Biography
• Bruce Medal Biography

• Bibliography of Works by Bethe list of 290 publications from 1928-96 compiled by Joe Tenn [Sonoma State University]
• Bethe's Letter to the Scientific Community about atomic weapons, 1995 [Pugwash Online]

• Personal and Historical Perspectives of Hans Bethe with links to videos of three lectures given in 1999, with an introduction and commentary by Silvan Schweber and Edwin Salpeter [Cornell University]
• Interviews, 2001 Text available in PDF [Oral History Archives, Cal Tech]

• Writing the Biography of a Living Scientist: Hans Bethe by Silvan Schweber Text of the 1996 Pauling Symposium lecture [Special Collections, Oregon State University Library]
• Frankfurt Honors Hans Bethe by Toni Feder [Physics Today, September, 2004]

• Collections:
  1. Photographs from the Emilio Segrè Visual Archives [AIP]
• Bethe alone:
  1. Hans Bethe in Ann Arbor, MI, 1935. Nobel Laureates in Physics [Professor B. S. Ishkhanov]
  2. Hans Bethe in his office. Harry N. Nelson [UC-Santa Barbara]
  3. Hans Bethe at the blackboard from "Impact of Technology on Society" by Larry Hinds
  4. Hans Bethe receiving the Nobel Prize, 1967 [Department of Physics, Hallym University, Korea]
  5. Hans Bethe at MIT, 1999 [The Tech]
  6. Hans Bethe stamp from Grenada, 1999. [Joachim Reinhardt, Physics-related Stamps]
• Bethe with others:
  1. Hans Bethe and Linus Pauling, 1954 [Ohio State University Library]
  2. Hans Bethe and Boyce McDaniel bicycling in the Wilson Synchotron, 1968 Cornell History [Cornell University Library]
  3. Hans Bethe and Igal Talmi in the early 1970's [Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel]
  4. Hans Bethe and Donald Clayton at Clayton's office [Clemson University]
  5. Hans Bethe and Michael Frayn [City University of New York]
  6. Hans Bethe and Michael Blakemore (director of the New York production of Frayn's Copenhagen) [City University of New York]
  7. Hans Bethe and Bob Friedhoffer [The Scientific Magic Show]

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