Born in Strasbourg, Germany in 1906, Hans Bethe grew up fascinated by the world of physics. After studying at the Goethe University of Frankfurt, Bethe earned his doctorate from the University of ...

Hans Bethe, a giant of 20th-century physics who played a central role in the building of the atomic bomb and won a Nobel Prize for discovering the process that powers the sun and the stars, has died ...

"A beloved mentor to generations of Cornell physicists, whose efforts helped to transform the Cornell University Physics Department into one of the world's great centers of physics." This statement ...

Hans Bethe, who has died aged 98, was one of the greatest innovative theoretical physicists of our time, the man who in the 1930s unravelled the mysterious nuclear cycles by which stars produce ...

Must a great scientist also be a mensch? The historian of science, Silvan Schweber, who teaches at Harvard and Brandeis, has offered some ideal examples in such previous books as “Einstein and ...

Schweber’s account of Hans Bethe’s life through his Nobel Prize–winning 1938 work on energy generation in stars reveals the origins of a charismatic scientist, grounded in the importance of his ...

Hans Bethe, the last of the giants of 20th century physics who explained the energy source that powers the stars and helped develop the atom bomb, but devoted decades of his life to nuclear arms ...

In 1937, two years after he moved to the US to escape Nazi persecution, the physicist Hans Bethe sent a letter to his mother in Germany. In it, he wrote, “I think I am about the leading theoretician ...

HOW does the sun shine? It is perhaps one of the first questions a curious child asks about the world, and one that has impelled many a curious child to physics. And, until 1938, it was something that ...

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