FOR THE RECORD - Dec. 6, 2008
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Salpeter obituary: The obituary of astrophysicist Edwin E. Salpeter in Monday’s California section said that the “Salpeter-Bethe equation” showed how helium changes to carbon. In fact, that equation by Salpeter and Cornell colleague Hans Bethe describes bound states of a pair of interacting particles in quantum field theory.
