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    Hans Albrecht Bethe (German pronunciation: [ˈhans ˈbeːtə] ; July 2, 1906 – March 6, 2005) was a German-American theoretical physicist who made major contributions...
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    The complete quantum mechanical description was first performed by Bethe and Heitler. They assumed plane waves for electrons which scatter at the nucleus...
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    Wolfgang Pauli, Peter Debye, and Hans Bethe went on to win Nobel Prizes, while others, most notably, Walter Heitler, Rudolf Peierls, Karl Bechert, Hermann...
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    carefully analyzing these experimental results, German physicists Walter Heitler and Gerhard Herzberg showed that the hydrogen nuclei obey Fermi statistics...
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    Boston: McGraw-Hill. ISBN 978-0072448481. LCCN 2001044743. OCLC 48965418. Heitler, W. (1984). The Quantum Theory of Radiation (1954 reprint 3rd ed.). New...
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  • Physical World, Oxford University Press (1986) ISBN 0-19-851997-4 Written by a former Einstein assistant at Princeton, this is a beautiful detailed history of...
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    Fritz London work on London dispersion force and London equations, Walter Heitler and Julian Schwinger work on Quantum electrodynamics, Asher Peres a pioneer...
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  • chemist Fritz Haber, developed the Haber process, Nobel Prize (1918) Walter Heitler, chemist Arthur Korn, physicist Ernst Ising, statistical mechanics Albert...
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