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Hans Bethe

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Also known as Hans Albrecht Bethe, Hans A. Bethe

German-American nuclear physicist

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Hans Bethe was a German-American nuclear physicist who made fundamental contributions to understanding how atoms and stars work. His discoveries in nuclear and theoretical physics were crucial to the development of nuclear energy and weapons, making him one of the most influential scientists of the 20th century.

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Born
1906
Died
2005
Works
27

Top works

  • From a life of physics
  • Acoustic Interactions with Submerged Elastic Structures Pt. III
  • Kernekraften er noedvendig
  • March 4
  • Zur Theorie des Durchgangs schneller Korpuskularstrahlen durch Materie

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Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
Germany
Active from
1906-07-02
Active to
2005-03-06
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Total plays
4

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. The ERA5 global reanalysis

    · 2020 · cited 24,148x

  2. Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome

    · 2001 · cited 18,613x

  3. A global reference for human genetic variation

    · 2015 · cited 17,770x

  4. Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019

    · 2020 · cited 15,951x

  5. Astropy: A community Python package for astronomy

    · 2013 · cited 13,551x

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Quotes

  • “We have more nuclear warheads than the Russians, and I consider this to be the most important measure of relative strength. In addition, as Dr. Kissinger stressed many years ago, at the present level of strategic armaments superiority in numbers or megatons has no meaning.”
  • “You should look at all the experimental information at hand, not only the most relevant, and be prepared to make conjectures if that helps.”
  • “If we fight a war and win it with H-bombs, what history will remember is not the ideals we were fighting for but the methods we used to accomplish them. These methods will be compared to the warfare of Genghis Khan, who ruthlessly killed every last inhabitant of Persia.”

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Nobel Prize

  • The Nobel Prize in Physics1967

    “for his contributions to the theory of nuclear reactions, especially his discoveries concerning the energy production in stars”

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Encyclopedic overview

Hans Albrecht Eduard Bethe (/ˈbɛθə/; German: [ˈhans ˈbeːtə] ; 2 July 1906 – 6 March 2005) 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.

In 1931, Bethe developed the Bethe ansatz, which is a method for finding the exact solutions for the eigenvalues and eigenvectors of certain one-dimensional quantum many-body models. In 1939, Bethe published a paper which established the CNO cycle as the primary energy source for heavier stars in the main sequence classification of stars, which earned him a Nobel Prize in 1967. During World War II, Bethe was head of the Theoretical Division at the secret Los Alamos National Laboratory that developed the first atomic bombs. There he played a key role in calculating the critical mass of the weapons and developing the theory behind the implosion method used in both the Trinity test and the "Fat Man" weapon dropped on Nagasaki in August 1945.

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