Hans Bethe
Hans Albrecht Eduard Bethe was a German-American physicist who made major contributions to nuclear physics, astrophysics, quantum electrodynamics and solid-state physics, and received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1967 for his work on the theory of stellar nucleosynthesis. For most of his career, Bethe was a professor at Cornell University.
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Background
- Born in
- Strasbourg
- Educated at
- University of CambridgeGoethe University FrankfurtLudwig-Maximilians-Universität MünchenGoethe-GymnasiumSapienza University of Rome
- Awards
- 🏆 Member of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States🏆 Royal Society Bakerian Medal🏆 Enrico Fermi Award
- Doctoral Advisors
- 🎓 Arnold Sommerfeld
- Doctoral Students
- 📖 Robert Marshak📖 Jeffrey Goldstone📖 David J. Thouless
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1906
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Died
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