Rose S. Bethe
Ithaca
102, 24-Dec, Herson Wagner Funeral Home.
A notice was published in The Ithaca Journal from Dec. 26 to Dec. 27, 2019.
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Rose Bethe
Housing Officer, Los Alamos, NM
Born Mar 20 1917
European Refugee, Manhattan Project Veteran, Project Worker/Staff, Spouse to Manhattan Project Worker
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Rose Bethe and her husband, Nobel Prize winner Hans Bethe, moved to Los Alamos in early 1943 when Hans was appointed leader of the Theoretical Division for the Manhattan Project.
During the initial stages of the Project, Rose worked in the housing office, where she assigned incoming scientists and their families to houses and showed them where site facilities were located. When Rose became pregnant with her first child, Henry, she resigned her position to help physicist Bruno Rossi wire electronics boards. The Bethes developed a close relationship with Rudolf and Eugenia Peierls, who arrived in Los Alamos after the British Mission joined the Manhattan Project in 1944.
After the war, the Bethes returned to Ithaca, New York and Hans resumed his professorship at Cornell University.
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Rose Bethe's Timeline
1917 Mar 20th Born in Munich, Germany.
1936 to 1939 Attended Smith College and Cornell University.
1939 Married Hans Bethe.
1943 Arrived at Los Alamos, where she helped assign housing units to incoming Manhattan Project scientists.
1946 Returned to Ithaca, NY with Hans, who remained a Professor of Physics at Cornell for the rest of his career.
Information from the Atomic Heritage Foundation
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Rose speaks about her experiences as a teenager in Stuttgart in the 1930s, as she was shunned by friends in the classroom, and the laws in Germany changed, requiring her family to flee. She came alone to the U.S. and worked as a 'scullery maid' before being admitted to Smith College and continuing her education.
Information from the Ithaca Area United Jewish Community Oral History Archives.
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ITHACA, N.Y. -- Three days after his death, Nobel laureate Hans Bethe, emeritus professor of physics at Cornell University and an architect of the age of modern atomic theory, was posthumously awarded the 2005 Benjamin Franklin Medal for Distinguished Achievement in the Sciences by the American Philosophical Society (APS).
The APS is the oldest learned society in the United States. The medal is the society's highest honor for lifetime achievement in the sciences.
The medal was presented to Bethe's widow, Rose, at their home in Ithaca, March 9, by APS president Frank H.T. Rhodes, president emeritus of Cornell.
"This a very special occasion, and it is clearly for all of us a bittersweet day," said Rhodes in presenting the award. "It is a day of sorrow, but it is also a day of joy. It is a day of sadness, but it is also a day of pride. Because we remember a great life. A long life. A rich life, nobly and generously lived. I don't know how you do justice to all the greatness that is Hans Bethe," he said.
Accepting the award for her late husband, Rose Bethe said: "Hans was very touched when he heard about [receiving this award] because he thought that at his age to be honored once more was really beyond anything he had hoped for. He was particularly struck that the Philosophical Society was founded for the promotion of useful knowledge, because that's what he believed in."
Extracted from a Cornell University press release March 2005
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....There are so many things to say about Hans Bethe. One of the most important is that his name will live on with a West Campus building that is to be named for him.
"He was great and good man," said physicist Freeman Dyson of the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, N.J. "A great teacher, great scientist, wise counselor and faithful friend."
On Sunday afternoon, Sept. 18, some of Bethe's closest colleagues and protégés delivered tributes to Bethe before a full house at Statler Auditorium. The event, "Celebrating an Exemplary Life," drew hundreds of admirers from the Cornell community and beyond.....And finally, said Bethe's colleagues, any fitting tribute is also necessarily a tribute to his wife, Rose.
"[Bethe's] habit was to talk with Rose about the larger dimensions of his work," said Rawlings; Bethe relied on her insight, commitment and unflagging support.
Rose Bethe spoke briefly. "He would have loved to hear it all," she said, "because he liked to be praised. But I think he knew that Cornell appreciated him."
For her words, and for her life, the audience stood and applauded.
Extracted from The Cornell Chronicle, September 19, 2005
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Hans Bethe, who discovered the violent force behind sunlight, helped devise the atom bomb and eventually cried out against the military excesses of the cold war, died late Sunday. He was 98, among the last of the giants who inaugurated the nuclear age.....Hans Albrecht Bethe was born on July 2, 1906, in Strasbourg, Alsace-Lorraine, to a family of modest means. His father, a physiologist at the University of Strasbourg, was Protestant and his mother Jewish. He was their only child....
During the war, he led the theoreticians who devised the atom bomb and for decades afterward fought against many new arms proposals. His wife, Rose, often discussed moral questions with him and, by all accounts, helped him decide what was right and wrong.....In 1928, Bethe received his Ph.D., graduating summa cum laude, having already made contributions to the fledgling science of quantum mechanics. The next year he worked for Paul Ewald, a noted
notePolitically, Bethe was the liberal counterpoint (and proud of it) to Edward Teller, the physicist and archconservative who played a dominant role in developing the hydrogen bomb. It brought to earth a more furious kind of solar fusion, and Bethe opposed its development as immoral. For more than a half-century, he championed many forms of arms control and nuclear disarmament, becoming a hero of the liberal intelligentsia.
…physicist in Stuttgart, and befriended his family, often visiting and having dinner.
At times, Bethe took the older Ewald children on Sunday walks, including Rose, his future wife....
Extracted from The New York Times, March 8 2005
Biographical materials contributed by Starfishin [#48860385]
Ithaca
102, 24-Dec, Herson Wagner Funeral Home.
A notice was published in The Ithaca Journal from Dec. 26 to Dec. 27, 2019.
___________________________________
Rose Bethe
Housing Officer, Los Alamos, NM
Born Mar 20 1917
European Refugee, Manhattan Project Veteran, Project Worker/Staff, Spouse to Manhattan Project Worker
___________________________________
Rose Bethe and her husband, Nobel Prize winner Hans Bethe, moved to Los Alamos in early 1943 when Hans was appointed leader of the Theoretical Division for the Manhattan Project.
During the initial stages of the Project, Rose worked in the housing office, where she assigned incoming scientists and their families to houses and showed them where site facilities were located. When Rose became pregnant with her first child, Henry, she resigned her position to help physicist Bruno Rossi wire electronics boards. The Bethes developed a close relationship with Rudolf and Eugenia Peierls, who arrived in Los Alamos after the British Mission joined the Manhattan Project in 1944.
After the war, the Bethes returned to Ithaca, New York and Hans resumed his professorship at Cornell University.
___________________________________
Rose Bethe's Timeline
1917 Mar 20th Born in Munich, Germany.
1936 to 1939 Attended Smith College and Cornell University.
1939 Married Hans Bethe.
1943 Arrived at Los Alamos, where she helped assign housing units to incoming Manhattan Project scientists.
1946 Returned to Ithaca, NY with Hans, who remained a Professor of Physics at Cornell for the rest of his career.
Information from the Atomic Heritage Foundation
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Rose speaks about her experiences as a teenager in Stuttgart in the 1930s, as she was shunned by friends in the classroom, and the laws in Germany changed, requiring her family to flee. She came alone to the U.S. and worked as a 'scullery maid' before being admitted to Smith College and continuing her education.
Information from the Ithaca Area United Jewish Community Oral History Archives.
___________________________________
ITHACA, N.Y. -- Three days after his death, Nobel laureate Hans Bethe, emeritus professor of physics at Cornell University and an architect of the age of modern atomic theory, was posthumously awarded the 2005 Benjamin Franklin Medal for Distinguished Achievement in the Sciences by the American Philosophical Society (APS).
The APS is the oldest learned society in the United States. The medal is the society's highest honor for lifetime achievement in the sciences.
The medal was presented to Bethe's widow, Rose, at their home in Ithaca, March 9, by APS president Frank H.T. Rhodes, president emeritus of Cornell.
"This a very special occasion, and it is clearly for all of us a bittersweet day," said Rhodes in presenting the award. "It is a day of sorrow, but it is also a day of joy. It is a day of sadness, but it is also a day of pride. Because we remember a great life. A long life. A rich life, nobly and generously lived. I don't know how you do justice to all the greatness that is Hans Bethe," he said.
Accepting the award for her late husband, Rose Bethe said: "Hans was very touched when he heard about [receiving this award] because he thought that at his age to be honored once more was really beyond anything he had hoped for. He was particularly struck that the Philosophical Society was founded for the promotion of useful knowledge, because that's what he believed in."
Extracted from a Cornell University press release March 2005
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....There are so many things to say about Hans Bethe. One of the most important is that his name will live on with a West Campus building that is to be named for him.
"He was great and good man," said physicist Freeman Dyson of the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, N.J. "A great teacher, great scientist, wise counselor and faithful friend."
On Sunday afternoon, Sept. 18, some of Bethe's closest colleagues and protégés delivered tributes to Bethe before a full house at Statler Auditorium. The event, "Celebrating an Exemplary Life," drew hundreds of admirers from the Cornell community and beyond.....And finally, said Bethe's colleagues, any fitting tribute is also necessarily a tribute to his wife, Rose.
"[Bethe's] habit was to talk with Rose about the larger dimensions of his work," said Rawlings; Bethe relied on her insight, commitment and unflagging support.
Rose Bethe spoke briefly. "He would have loved to hear it all," she said, "because he liked to be praised. But I think he knew that Cornell appreciated him."
For her words, and for her life, the audience stood and applauded.
Extracted from The Cornell Chronicle, September 19, 2005
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Hans Bethe, who discovered the violent force behind sunlight, helped devise the atom bomb and eventually cried out against the military excesses of the cold war, died late Sunday. He was 98, among the last of the giants who inaugurated the nuclear age.....Hans Albrecht Bethe was born on July 2, 1906, in Strasbourg, Alsace-Lorraine, to a family of modest means. His father, a physiologist at the University of Strasbourg, was Protestant and his mother Jewish. He was their only child....
During the war, he led the theoreticians who devised the atom bomb and for decades afterward fought against many new arms proposals. His wife, Rose, often discussed moral questions with him and, by all accounts, helped him decide what was right and wrong.....In 1928, Bethe received his Ph.D., graduating summa cum laude, having already made contributions to the fledgling science of quantum mechanics. The next year he worked for Paul Ewald, a noted
notePolitically, Bethe was the liberal counterpoint (and proud of it) to Edward Teller, the physicist and archconservative who played a dominant role in developing the hydrogen bomb. It brought to earth a more furious kind of solar fusion, and Bethe opposed its development as immoral. For more than a half-century, he championed many forms of arms control and nuclear disarmament, becoming a hero of the liberal intelligentsia.
…physicist in Stuttgart, and befriended his family, often visiting and having dinner.
At times, Bethe took the older Ewald children on Sunday walks, including Rose, his future wife....
Extracted from The New York Times, March 8 2005
Biographical materials contributed by Starfishin [#48860385]
Rose S. Bethe
Ithaca
102, 24-Dec, Herson Wagner Funeral Home.
A notice was published in The Ithaca Journal from Dec. 26 to Dec. 27, 2019.
___________________________________
Rose Bethe
Housing Officer, Los Alamos, NM
Born Mar 20 1917
European Refugee, Manhattan Project Veteran, Project Worker/Staff, Spouse to Manhattan Project Worker
___________________________________
Rose Bethe and her husband, Nobel Prize winner Hans Bethe, moved to Los Alamos in early 1943 when Hans was appointed leader of the Theoretical Division for the Manhattan Project.
During the initial stages of the Project, Rose worked in the housing office, where she assigned incoming scientists and their families to houses and showed them where site facilities were located. When Rose became pregnant with her first child, Henry, she resigned her position to help physicist Bruno Rossi wire electronics boards. The Bethes developed a close relationship with Rudolf and Eugenia Peierls, who arrived in Los Alamos after the British Mission joined the Manhattan Project in 1944.
After the war, the Bethes returned to Ithaca, New York and Hans resumed his professorship at Cornell University.
___________________________________
Rose Bethe's Timeline
1917 Mar 20th Born in Munich, Germany.
1936 to 1939 Attended Smith College and Cornell University.
1939 Married Hans Bethe.
1943 Arrived at Los Alamos, where she helped assign housing units to incoming Manhattan Project scientists.
1946 Returned to Ithaca, NY with Hans, who remained a Professor of Physics at Cornell for the rest of his career.
Information from the Atomic Heritage Foundation
___________________________________
Rose speaks about her experiences as a teenager in Stuttgart in the 1930s, as she was shunned by friends in the classroom, and the laws in Germany changed, requiring her family to flee. She came alone to the U.S. and worked as a 'scullery maid' before being admitted to Smith College and continuing her education.
Information from the Ithaca Area United Jewish Community Oral History Archives.
___________________________________
ITHACA, N.Y. -- Three days after his death, Nobel laureate Hans Bethe, emeritus professor of physics at Cornell University and an architect of the age of modern atomic theory, was posthumously awarded the 2005 Benjamin Franklin Medal for Distinguished Achievement in the Sciences by the American Philosophical Society (APS).
The APS is the oldest learned society in the United States. The medal is the society's highest honor for lifetime achievement in the sciences.
The medal was presented to Bethe's widow, Rose, at their home in Ithaca, March 9, by APS president Frank H.T. Rhodes, president emeritus of Cornell.
"This a very special occasion, and it is clearly for all of us a bittersweet day," said Rhodes in presenting the award. "It is a day of sorrow, but it is also a day of joy. It is a day of sadness, but it is also a day of pride. Because we remember a great life. A long life. A rich life, nobly and generously lived. I don't know how you do justice to all the greatness that is Hans Bethe," he said.
Accepting the award for her late husband, Rose Bethe said: "Hans was very touched when he heard about [receiving this award] because he thought that at his age to be honored once more was really beyond anything he had hoped for. He was particularly struck that the Philosophical Society was founded for the promotion of useful knowledge, because that's what he believed in."
Extracted from a Cornell University press release March 2005
___________________________________
....There are so many things to say about Hans Bethe. One of the most important is that his name will live on with a West Campus building that is to be named for him.
"He was great and good man," said physicist Freeman Dyson of the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, N.J. "A great teacher, great scientist, wise counselor and faithful friend."
On Sunday afternoon, Sept. 18, some of Bethe's closest colleagues and protégés delivered tributes to Bethe before a full house at Statler Auditorium. The event, "Celebrating an Exemplary Life," drew hundreds of admirers from the Cornell community and beyond.....And finally, said Bethe's colleagues, any fitting tribute is also necessarily a tribute to his wife, Rose.
"[Bethe's] habit was to talk with Rose about the larger dimensions of his work," said Rawlings; Bethe relied on her insight, commitment and unflagging support.
Rose Bethe spoke briefly. "He would have loved to hear it all," she said, "because he liked to be praised. But I think he knew that Cornell appreciated him."
For her words, and for her life, the audience stood and applauded.
Extracted from The Cornell Chronicle, September 19, 2005
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Hans Bethe, who discovered the violent force behind sunlight, helped devise the atom bomb and eventually cried out against the military excesses of the cold war, died late Sunday. He was 98, among the last of the giants who inaugurated the nuclear age.....Hans Albrecht Bethe was born on July 2, 1906, in Strasbourg, Alsace-Lorraine, to a family of modest means. His father, a physiologist at the University of Strasbourg, was Protestant and his mother Jewish. He was their only child....
During the war, he led the theoreticians who devised the atom bomb and for decades afterward fought against many new arms proposals. His wife, Rose, often discussed moral questions with him and, by all accounts, helped him decide what was right and wrong.....In 1928, Bethe received his Ph.D., graduating summa cum laude, having already made contributions to the fledgling science of quantum mechanics. The next year he worked for Paul Ewald, a noted
notePolitically, Bethe was the liberal counterpoint (and proud of it) to Edward Teller, the physicist and archconservative who played a dominant role in developing the hydrogen bomb. It brought to earth a more furious kind of solar fusion, and Bethe opposed its development as immoral. For more than a half-century, he championed many forms of arms control and nuclear disarmament, becoming a hero of the liberal intelligentsia.
…physicist in Stuttgart, and befriended his family, often visiting and having dinner.
At times, Bethe took the older Ewald children on Sunday walks, including Rose, his future wife....
Extracted from The New York Times, March 8 2005
Biographical materials contributed by Starfishin [#48860385]
Ithaca
102, 24-Dec, Herson Wagner Funeral Home.
A notice was published in The Ithaca Journal from Dec. 26 to Dec. 27, 2019.
___________________________________
Rose Bethe
Housing Officer, Los Alamos, NM
Born Mar 20 1917
European Refugee, Manhattan Project Veteran, Project Worker/Staff, Spouse to Manhattan Project Worker
___________________________________
Rose Bethe and her husband, Nobel Prize winner Hans Bethe, moved to Los Alamos in early 1943 when Hans was appointed leader of the Theoretical Division for the Manhattan Project.
During the initial stages of the Project, Rose worked in the housing office, where she assigned incoming scientists and their families to houses and showed them where site facilities were located. When Rose became pregnant with her first child, Henry, she resigned her position to help physicist Bruno Rossi wire electronics boards. The Bethes developed a close relationship with Rudolf and Eugenia Peierls, who arrived in Los Alamos after the British Mission joined the Manhattan Project in 1944.
After the war, the Bethes returned to Ithaca, New York and Hans resumed his professorship at Cornell University.
___________________________________
Rose Bethe's Timeline
1917 Mar 20th Born in Munich, Germany.
1936 to 1939 Attended Smith College and Cornell University.
1939 Married Hans Bethe.
1943 Arrived at Los Alamos, where she helped assign housing units to incoming Manhattan Project scientists.
1946 Returned to Ithaca, NY with Hans, who remained a Professor of Physics at Cornell for the rest of his career.
Information from the Atomic Heritage Foundation
___________________________________
Rose speaks about her experiences as a teenager in Stuttgart in the 1930s, as she was shunned by friends in the classroom, and the laws in Germany changed, requiring her family to flee. She came alone to the U.S. and worked as a 'scullery maid' before being admitted to Smith College and continuing her education.
Information from the Ithaca Area United Jewish Community Oral History Archives.
___________________________________
ITHACA, N.Y. -- Three days after his death, Nobel laureate Hans Bethe, emeritus professor of physics at Cornell University and an architect of the age of modern atomic theory, was posthumously awarded the 2005 Benjamin Franklin Medal for Distinguished Achievement in the Sciences by the American Philosophical Society (APS).
The APS is the oldest learned society in the United States. The medal is the society's highest honor for lifetime achievement in the sciences.
The medal was presented to Bethe's widow, Rose, at their home in Ithaca, March 9, by APS president Frank H.T. Rhodes, president emeritus of Cornell.
"This a very special occasion, and it is clearly for all of us a bittersweet day," said Rhodes in presenting the award. "It is a day of sorrow, but it is also a day of joy. It is a day of sadness, but it is also a day of pride. Because we remember a great life. A long life. A rich life, nobly and generously lived. I don't know how you do justice to all the greatness that is Hans Bethe," he said.
Accepting the award for her late husband, Rose Bethe said: "Hans was very touched when he heard about [receiving this award] because he thought that at his age to be honored once more was really beyond anything he had hoped for. He was particularly struck that the Philosophical Society was founded for the promotion of useful knowledge, because that's what he believed in."
Extracted from a Cornell University press release March 2005
___________________________________
....There are so many things to say about Hans Bethe. One of the most important is that his name will live on with a West Campus building that is to be named for him.
"He was great and good man," said physicist Freeman Dyson of the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, N.J. "A great teacher, great scientist, wise counselor and faithful friend."
On Sunday afternoon, Sept. 18, some of Bethe's closest colleagues and protégés delivered tributes to Bethe before a full house at Statler Auditorium. The event, "Celebrating an Exemplary Life," drew hundreds of admirers from the Cornell community and beyond.....And finally, said Bethe's colleagues, any fitting tribute is also necessarily a tribute to his wife, Rose.
"[Bethe's] habit was to talk with Rose about the larger dimensions of his work," said Rawlings; Bethe relied on her insight, commitment and unflagging support.
Rose Bethe spoke briefly. "He would have loved to hear it all," she said, "because he liked to be praised. But I think he knew that Cornell appreciated him."
For her words, and for her life, the audience stood and applauded.
Extracted from The Cornell Chronicle, September 19, 2005
___________________________________
Hans Bethe, who discovered the violent force behind sunlight, helped devise the atom bomb and eventually cried out against the military excesses of the cold war, died late Sunday. He was 98, among the last of the giants who inaugurated the nuclear age.....Hans Albrecht Bethe was born on July 2, 1906, in Strasbourg, Alsace-Lorraine, to a family of modest means. His father, a physiologist at the University of Strasbourg, was Protestant and his mother Jewish. He was their only child....
During the war, he led the theoreticians who devised the atom bomb and for decades afterward fought against many new arms proposals. His wife, Rose, often discussed moral questions with him and, by all accounts, helped him decide what was right and wrong.....In 1928, Bethe received his Ph.D., graduating summa cum laude, having already made contributions to the fledgling science of quantum mechanics. The next year he worked for Paul Ewald, a noted
notePolitically, Bethe was the liberal counterpoint (and proud of it) to Edward Teller, the physicist and archconservative who played a dominant role in developing the hydrogen bomb. It brought to earth a more furious kind of solar fusion, and Bethe opposed its development as immoral. For more than a half-century, he championed many forms of arms control and nuclear disarmament, becoming a hero of the liberal intelligentsia.
…physicist in Stuttgart, and befriended his family, often visiting and having dinner.
At times, Bethe took the older Ewald children on Sunday walks, including Rose, his future wife....
Extracted from The New York Times, March 8 2005
Biographical materials contributed by Starfishin [#48860385]
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