Hans A. Bethe, Nobel laureate physicist at Cornell University and head of the Theoretical Physics Division at Los Alamos for the Manhattan Project during World War II, will give a lecture on "The Making of the Bomb" on Monday, Oct. 28.

The lecture, free and open to the public, is designed for an audience with some scientific or technical background. It is scheduled for 4:30 p.m. in Schwartz Auditorium, Rockefeller Hall.

The lecture is part of the Gemant Lecture series. The 1995 Andrew Gemant Award was given to Robert R. Wilson, Cornell professor emeritus of physics, by the American Institute of Physics, for his outstanding work linking physics to the arts and humanities. Part of the award includes a provision for a series of lectures of interest to the public as well as the local community of physicists. The award is made possible by a bequest of the late physicist Andrew Gemant (1895-1983).

Bethe, 90, is the John Wendell Anderson Professor of Physics Emeritus whose description of the nuclear processes powering the sun earned him a Nobel Prize in physics in 1967.