biography
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Bethe, Hans (Albrecht)
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pronunciation:
[baytuh]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1906– )
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| biography:
| Physicist, born in Strasbourg, NE France (formerly Germany). He studied at the universities of Frankfurt and Munich, and taught in Germany until 1933. He moved first to England, then to the USA, where he held the chair of physics at Cornell University until his retirement (1937–75). During World War 2 he was director of theoretical physics for the atomic bomb project based at Los Alamos. In 1939 he proposed the first detailed theory for the generation of energy by stars through a series of nuclear reactions. He was awarded the 1967 Nobel Prize for Physics. |
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