Из жизни Хилды Леви

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...She became engaged to the physicist Hans Bethe in 1934.[4] The two had known each other since 1925.[6] However, his mother, although herself Jewish, was opposed to her son marrying a Jewish girl, and he broke off the engagement a few days before the wedding was to take place.[4] Bethe's action shocked Franck and Bohr. Although an eminent physicist, Bethe would not be invited to visit the Niels Bohr Institute until after the Second World War.[7] Levi never married,[1] but became friends with many of the physicists who did visit the institute, including Otto Frisch, George Placzek, Rudolf Peierls, Leon Rosenfeld, Edward Teller and Victor Weisskopf...