论文标题
伯特之前：太阳产生能量的早期思想
Before Bethe: Early Ideas of the Sun's Generation of Energy
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论文摘要
太阳能在近一个世纪以来一直是一个谜。有一段时间以来，天文学家和物理学家认为太阳能量的来源是引力收缩，但这种理论证明是站不住脚的。受放射性新科学的启发，到20世纪初，他们越来越专注于亚原子过程。该论文概述了从1905年到1938年的那个时期解决太阳能问题的尝试，后者在后期涉及核天体物理学，这是一种新的令人兴奋的跨学科科学。尽管汉斯·贝特（Hans Bethe）的1930年代后期才能令人满意地解决这个问题，但较早的尝试涉及亚瑟·埃丁顿（Arthur Eddington），罗伯特·阿特金森（Robert Atkinson）和乔治·戈诺夫（George Gamow）等科学家的尝试可以被认为是为贝特（Bethe）突破的缓慢准备。
Solar energy remained an enigma for nearly a century. For a while astronomers and physicists believed that the source of the Sun's energy was gravitational contraction, but the theory turned out to be untenable. Inspired by the new science of radioactivity, by the early twentieth century they increasingly focused on subatomic processes. The paper outlines the attempts to solve the solar energy problem in the period from about 1905 to 1938, which in the later phase involved nuclear astrophysics, a new and exciting interdisciplinary science. Although the problem was only satisfactorily solved with Hans Bethe's theory of the late 1930s, the earlier attempts involving scientists such as Arthur Eddington, Robert Atkinson and George Gamow can be considered a slow preparation for Bethe's breakthrough.
