S. S. Schweber (1928–2017) was professor emeritus of physics and the Richard Koret Professor in the History of Ideas at Brandeis University and an associate in the Department of the History of Science at Harvard University. He was a fellow of the American Physical Society and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His books include
Einstein for the 21st Century: His Legacy in Science, Art, and Modern Culture and
QED and the Men Who Made It (both Princeton).
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S. S. Schweber: In the Shadow of the Bomb
How two charismatic, exceptionally talented physicists came to terms with the nuclear weapons they helped to create In 1945, the United States dropped the bomb, and physicists were forced to contempl …
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Silvan S. Schweber: Nuclear Forces
What drove Nobel-winning physicist Hans Bethe, head of Theoretical Physics at Los Alamos during the Manhattan Project, to later renounce the weaponry he had worked so tirelessly to create? That is on …
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Silvan S. Schweber: Introduction to Relativistic Quantum Field Theory
"Complete, systematic, self-contained…the usefulness and scope of application of such a work is enormous…combines thorough knowledge with a high degree of didactic ability and a delightful s …
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S. S. Schweber: QED and the Men Who Made It
In the 1930s, physics was in a crisis. There appeared to be no way to reconcile the new theory of quantum mechanics with Einstein’s theory of relativity. Several approaches had been tried and had fai …
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Silvan S. Schweber: Nuclear Forces
On the fiftieth anniversary of Hiroshima, Nobel-winning physicist Hans Bethe called on his fellow scientists to stop working on weapons of mass destruction. What drove Bethe, the head of Theoretical …
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Silvan S. Schweber: Einstein and Oppenheimer
Albert Einstein and J. Robert Oppenheimer, two iconic scientists of the twentieth century, belonged to different generations, with the boundary marked by the advent of quantum mechanics. By exploring …
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