!!!Salpeter, Edwin E

Salpeter, Edwin E., b. Vienna, Dec. 3, 1924, physicist. 
Emigrated to Australia in 1939 and studied physics and mathematics 
there. Has pursued his scientific career in the USA. Since 1949 at 
Cornell University, Ithaca, first as the research assistant of Hans A. 
Bethe, then as J. G. White Distinguished Professor in the Physical 
Sciences; 1997 emeritus professor. Basic research in nuclear physics 
and quantum mechanics; research in astrophysics (polar caps of neutron 
stars, galaxy clusters). Numerous important awards.

!Publications
Quantum Mechanics of One- and Two-Electron Atoms, 1957 
(with H. A. Bethe).


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