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World Service,29 Mar 1999,4 mins

Quantum Mechanics

My Century

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Hans Bethe, German-American physicist who won the Nobel Prize in physics in 1967 for his work on the theory of stellar nucleosynthesis. He talks about Niels Bohr, the father of quantum mechanics - the most influential branch of physics to have emerged in the 20th Century.

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