Quantum mechanics of one-and two-electron atoms / Hans A. Bethe and Edwin E. Salpeter.
By: Bethe, Hans A. (Hans Albrecht)
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Contributor(s): Salpeter, Edwin E.
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BookPublisher: New York : Plenum Pub. Corp., 1977Description: xii, 369 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.ISBN: 0306200228 .Subject(s): Many-body problem | AtomsDDC classification: 539.7 | Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| General Lending | MTU Bishopstown Library Lending | 539.7 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00038201 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
This book was written twenty years ago, but we are leaving it unchanged - not because little has happened to the subject, but because so much has happened that any change would require very major rewriting. On the other hand, no other book on the subject seems to have appeared and we hope this paperback edition will be of some use to a younger generation - if not for another twenty years, at least until someone else has the patience to write a new book. Although we have added no new material we have corrected some misprints. We have added new references only where they correct actual errors. We are grateful to Drs. G. Feinberg, M. Inokuti, Y. Kim, and A. Petermann for pointing out errors. Nearly all of this book is taken from an article prepared for a volume of the Encyclopedia of Physics . This article, in turn, is partly based on Dr. Norbert Rosenzweig's translation of an older article on the same subject, written by one of us (H.A.B.) about 25 years ago for the Geiger-Scheel Handbuch der Physik . To the article written last year we have added some Addenda and Errata. These Addenda and Errata refer back to some of the 79 sections of the main text and contain some misprint corrections, additional references and some notes.
"A Plenum/Rosetta edition.".
Includes indexes.
The hydrogen atom without external fields -- The helium atom without external fields -- Atoms in external fields -- Interaction with radiation.
Author notes provided by Syndetics
Born in Germany 1906, Hans Bethe was the son of a university professor. He received a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Munich and lectured in physics throughout various German universities until 1933, when he moved to England because of the rise to power of Hitler and the Nazi party. (His mother was Jewish.) In 1935 Bethe immigrated to the United States to join the physics faculty at Cornell University.In 1938 Bethe determined the sequences of nuclear reactions that power the stars, a problem that had remained unsolved for 75 years since William Thomson Kelvin and Hermann Helmholtz first described it. For this research, Bethe received the Nobel Prize in 1967. In addition to these accomplishments, he researched a wide range of other problems, such as electron densities in crystals and operational conditions in nuclear reactors. He was the director of the Theoretical Physics Division of the Los Alamos Laboratory from 1943 to 1946, working on the Manhattan Project to develop the atomic bomb.
Bethe has been active in science policy discussions for several decades. In 1958 he served as a delegate to the first International Test Ban Conference at Geneva, and was a leader in the nuclear disarmament movement. Bethe also played an active role in the national debate on the "Star Wars" defense proposal.
(Bowker Author Biography)