September 29, 2016 Thursday
Bedtime Story
Hans Bethe and the rise of Adolf Hitler
Mathematical or theoretical physics is an extremely difficult subject.
It is even more arduous and painful to be good at it and be employed and paid for it.
Hans Bethe was one of the few handful men in West Europe and the United States who was really good at it.
Back in Munich once again under Sommerfeld but this time as an associate professor, he was given the task of supervising English speaking students from the United States and England.
One of them was Lloyd Smith from the Cornell University, Ithaca, New York.
This would prove to be a life changing acquaintance later.
Meanwhile at the age of 26 he wrote an article on the quantum mechanics of hydrogen and helium for the science journal:
Handbuch der Physik.
Its depth and breath of the subject was so staggering that even 25 years later it required very little updating for the 1959 edition.
By 1932, dark clouds had begin to gather over Europe both politically and economically.
The loss in the World War I had already brought the German Empire to its knees depriving it of all its territories and revenue.
At this time following the Wall Street crash of 1929 almost 6 million Germans were unemployed.
That translated into 30% of the nation's work force.
This was because the United States had began to pull out its loaned money from Europe on which the war devastated Germany was most dependent.
German defeat in the World War 1 was followed by an even worse kind of humiliation at the Treaty of Versailles the terms of which is consternating even today.
Then in 1932 a man rose from the ashes of humiliated Germany who would send shockwaves around the world.
That year Adolf Hitler acquired German citizenship (born in Austria-Hungary) and began his ascendancy towards absolute power over Germany.
Hitler and his socialist Nazi party initiated the labour intensive motorway program on a gigantic scale.
This led to the creation of the world's most efficient motorway system known as the autobahns.
Car production particularly that of Volkswagen (The People's Car) was turned into mass manufacturing in the lines of Henry Ford in the United States.
The German economy was transformed under Hitler though like everything it came at a price.
Persecution of minorities particularly those of Jews started on an unprecedented scale with a systematic and methodical machine like efficiency.
One of the Jews who found himself targeted was Hans Bethe.
Stay tuned to the voice of an average storytelling chimpanzee or login at http://panarrans.blogspot.in/
Good night mon ami and my fellow cousin ape.
Bedtime Story
Hans Bethe and the rise of Adolf Hitler
Mathematical or theoretical physics is an extremely difficult subject.
It is even more arduous and painful to be good at it and be employed and paid for it.
Hans Bethe was one of the few handful men in West Europe and the United States who was really good at it.
Back in Munich once again under Sommerfeld but this time as an associate professor, he was given the task of supervising English speaking students from the United States and England.
One of them was Lloyd Smith from the Cornell University, Ithaca, New York.
This would prove to be a life changing acquaintance later.
Meanwhile at the age of 26 he wrote an article on the quantum mechanics of hydrogen and helium for the science journal:
Handbuch der Physik.
Its depth and breath of the subject was so staggering that even 25 years later it required very little updating for the 1959 edition.
By 1932, dark clouds had begin to gather over Europe both politically and economically.
The loss in the World War I had already brought the German Empire to its knees depriving it of all its territories and revenue.
At this time following the Wall Street crash of 1929 almost 6 million Germans were unemployed.
That translated into 30% of the nation's work force.
This was because the United States had began to pull out its loaned money from Europe on which the war devastated Germany was most dependent.
German defeat in the World War 1 was followed by an even worse kind of humiliation at the Treaty of Versailles the terms of which is consternating even today.
Then in 1932 a man rose from the ashes of humiliated Germany who would send shockwaves around the world.
That year Adolf Hitler acquired German citizenship (born in Austria-Hungary) and began his ascendancy towards absolute power over Germany.
Hitler and his socialist Nazi party initiated the labour intensive motorway program on a gigantic scale.
This led to the creation of the world's most efficient motorway system known as the autobahns.
Car production particularly that of Volkswagen (The People's Car) was turned into mass manufacturing in the lines of Henry Ford in the United States.
The German economy was transformed under Hitler though like everything it came at a price.
Persecution of minorities particularly those of Jews started on an unprecedented scale with a systematic and methodical machine like efficiency.
One of the Jews who found himself targeted was Hans Bethe.
Stay tuned to the voice of an average storytelling chimpanzee or login at http://panarrans.blogspot.in/
Good night mon ami and my fellow cousin ape.
The Humiliation that Germany had to endure created unforgettable bitterness
German Hyperinflation of 1923 was sickening
Absolutely useless German Mark of 1920s
Reichsautobahn: construction of the fabulous autobahns under the Third Reich. Hitler personally picked up the shovel on September 23, 1933 at Frankfurt as a mark of inauguration.
Volkswagen Beetles production line under Nazi Germany
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