Hans Bethe - Nobel Prize in Physics — 1967
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Hans Bethe

Prize
Nobel Prize in Physics — 1967
for his contributions to the theory of nuclear reactions, especially his discoveries concerning the energy production in stars
Citizenship
German Reich German Reich United States United States
Languages
English, German
date of birth
7/2/1906
place of birth
Strasbourg
date of death
3/6/2005
place of death
Ithaca
Lived
98 years
educated at
  • Goethe University Frankfurt
    • academic major: physics
    • start time: 1924
    • end time: 1926
  • University of Cambridge
    • start time: 1929
    • end time: 1930
  • Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
    • start time: 1926
    • end time: 1928
  • Sapienza University of Rome
    • end time: 1931
    • start time: 1930
  • Goethe-Gymnasium
member of
  • American Academy of Arts and Sciences
    • start time: 1962
  • Royal Society of London
    • start time: 1957
  • German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
    • start time: 1978
  • American Philosophical Society
    • start time: 1947
  • Russian Academy of Sciences
    • start time: 1994
  • National Academy of Sciences
    • start time: 1944
  • American Physical Society
    • start time: 1935
  • American Astronomical Society
doctoral student
  • Ramamurti Rajaraman
    • end time: 1963
  • Ronald F. Peierls
    • end time: 1959
  • Peter A. Carruthers
  • Harold Saul Zapolsky
  • John L. Gammel, Jr.
  • Benjamin D. Day
  • David J. Thouless
  • David Breed Beard
  • J. J. Sakurai
  • Francis E. Low
  • John Negele
  • Michel Baranger
  • Robert Marshak
  • Roman Jackiw
  • Jeffrey Goldstone
  • Mark S Nelkin
  • Michael J. Moravcsik
  • Walter McAfee
employer
  • Cornell University
    • end time: 1975
    • start time: 1933
  • Manhattan Project
    • start time: 1943
  • University of Tübingen
    • end time: 1933
    • start time: 1931
position held
  • chairperson
    • end time: 1955
    • start time: 1955
field of work
  • astrophysics
occupation
  • physicist
  • university teacher
  • nuclear physicist
  • scientist
notable work
  • Bethe–Feynman formula
  • Bethe-Slater curve
  • Bethe lattice
  • Bethe formula
  • Bethe ansatz
  • "Bethe-Tait" accident
  • Mott–Bethe formula
  • Bethe strings
work location
  • Tübingen
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