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Bethe

American  
[bey-tuh] / ˈbeɪ tə /

noun

  1. Hans Albrecht 1906–2005, U.S. physicist, born in Alsace: Nobel Prize 1967.


Bethe British  
/ ˈbeɪtə /

noun

  1. Hans Albrecht (hans ˈalbrɛçt). 1906–2005, US physicist, born in Germany; noted for his research on astrophysics and nuclear physics: Nobel prize for physics 1967

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Bethe Scientific  
/ bātə /
  1. German-born American physicist who was instrumental in the development of quantum physics. Bethe also played an important role in the development of the atomic bomb, later working to educate the public about the threat of nuclear weapons. In 1967 he received a Nobel Prize for explaining that the Sun and other stars derive their energy from a series of nuclear reactions which came to be known as the carbon cycle, or Bethe cycle.


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They include his brother Frank Oppenheimer, Haakon Chevalier, Hans Bethe, Isidor Rabi and more, reflecting on Oppenheimer and what they created at Los Alamos.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 23, 2023

Christopher Fryer, head of Los Alamos’s Center for Nonlinear Studies, has found that the weapons codes still contain computational tricks conjured up decades ago by Manhattan Project luminaries such as Hans Bethe and Richard Feynman.

From Science Magazine • Apr. 20, 2023

Niels Bohr, with whom Dr. Gottfried studied in Copenhagen in 1959; and Professor Bethe.

From New York Times • Sep. 9, 2022

Physicists Hans Bethe and Steven Weinberg come to mind, and so does cosmologist Martin Rees.

From Scientific American • Mar. 17, 2018

At the time that Alpher, Bethe, and Gamow wrote their paper, not much was known about the nuclear reactions of protons and neutrons.

From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking