This month's issue of the magazine Resonance features Hans Bethe (drawing on right by Biman Nath), who is the originator of several wonderful ideas, techniques, and entire fields of physics. I won't try to list them here. There are several articles in there about Bethe and his contributions to physics, and there's also a transcript of a videotape interview of him by David Mermin (yes, he of the textbook) about the foundations of modern solid state physics. (See here for why there's a double entendre in the title of this post.) Resonance seems rather interesting overall. Lifting from its "about" page, you can learn what it is about:
'Resonance' is a journal of science education, published monthly since January 1996 by the Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore, India. It is primarily directed to students and teachers at the undergraduate level, though some material beyond this range is also included. Each issue contains articles on physics, chemistry, biology, mathematics and computer science. The format is attractive and easy to read, with pictures, illustrations, marginal notes, boxes and space for comments provided. The articles are of various types: individual general articles, series made up of several parts; concise article-in-boxes; classroom pieces; Nature watch pieces; research news; book reviews; and Information and Announcements useful to students and teachers. A chosen scientist or mathematician is specially highlighted each month, with a portrait on the cover, and articles describing his or her life and work. In some cases an article written by the scientist on a general theme is included as a Classic or a Reflections item at the end of the issue. Some of the personalities featured so far are -- Einstein, Schrodinger, Pauli, Chandrasekhar, Raman, S N Bose, von Neumann, Turing, Darwin, Mc Clintock, Haldane, Fisher, Lorenz, Mendel, Dobhzansky, Pauling, the Bernoullis, Fermat, Harish-Chandra, Ramanujam and Weil.
Seems worth browsing through the archives. -cvj (Found on Malkanthapuragudi.)
