Talk:Hans Bethe

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Peer review This article was externally reviewed on December 14, 2005 by Nature. It was found to have 2 errors.

What, no mention of the famous "alpha beta gamma" paper by Alpher, Bethe and Gamow? JIP | Talk 13:44, 10 Mar 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Nature claims errors

Nature disputes the accuracy of this article; see http://www.nature.com/news/2005/051212/multimedia/438900a_m1.html and Wikipedia:External_peer_review#Nature. We're hoping they will provide a list of the alleged errors soon. —Steven G. Johnson 01:49, 15 December 2005 (UTC)

[Alpher, Bethe (in absentia), and Gamow] is the proper citation; it was Gamow's joke, not Bethe's. --Ancheta Wis 02:50, 15 December 2005 (UTC)
Actually you could argue that the [2nd spoof paper] is a misnumbering because the [Alpher - Gamow] paper is genuine; it is only the attribution to Bethe that is humorous. --Ancheta Wis 03:34, 15 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Nature errors to correct

  • It is not really accurate to say that Bethe discovered "stellar nucleosyntheis" He showed now nuclear reactions accounted for the energy output from stars.
  • Robert Wilson was not at Cornell before WWII; he came in 1947
    • Well I got the first one already. As for the latter, I guess the word "later" was not strong enough for their fact-checkers. --Fastfission 18:54, 22 December 2005 (UTC)