(SCIENTISTS) SUBRAHMANYAN CHANDRASEKHAR Typed Letter Signed

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(SCIENTISTS.) SUBRAHMANYAN CHANDRASEKHAR. Typed Letter Signed, "S. Chandrasekhar," to Jeremy Bernstein, offering a correction to Bernstein's article on physicist Hans Bethe, sending his own account of the story [not present], and citing another account. 1 page, 4to, "Enrico Fermi Institute" stationery; horizontal folds. Chicago, 14 December 1979

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". . . Bethe's discovery of the stability of the negative ion of hydrogen . . . . Your account gives the impression . . . that . . . he was aware of its possible relevance as the source of continuous absorption in the solar atmosphere. This cannot be the case since its relevance . . . was pointed out by Ruper Wildt . . . 8 years later . . . ."