Hans Bethe - Born approximation (13/158)

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German-born theoretical physicist Hans Bethe (1906-2005) was one of the first scientists to join the Manhattan Project, later strongly advocating nuclear disarmament. In 1967, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for his theory of stellar nucleosynthesis. [Listener: Sam Schweber; date recorded: 1996]

TRANSCRIPT: I used Born approximation like Moliére's Gentilhomme used prose; I didn't know about Born approximation.

[SS] No I... I'm merely coming back that when Pauli criticizes you, it is really when you try to be much more ambitious than that.

Exactly. Yes, well I went to a second approximation which got very clumsy and involved, but it has been used in recent years by crystallographers to go one step farther.

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