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Hans Bethe

1906 - 2005

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Hans Albrecht Eduard Bethe (; German: [ˈhans ˈbeːtə] ; July 2, 1906 – March 6, 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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Hans Bethe is the 133rd most popular physicist (down from 84th in 2019), the 446th most popular biography from France (down from 381st in 2019) and the 14th most popular French Physicist.

Hans Bethe is most famous for his work in nuclear physics. He was the head of the Theoretical Division at Los Alamos during World War II, where he helped develop the atomic bomb.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Hans Bethe ranks 133 out of 851. Before him are Josiah Willard Gibbs, William Rowan Hamilton, Arthur Compton, Simon van der Meer, James Rainwater, and Carl Zeiss. After him are James Franck, Robert Coleman Richardson, Emilio Segrè, Emil Lenz, George Gamow, and C. V. Raman.

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Among people born in 1906, Hans Bethe ranks 27. Before him are Henri Charrière, Vladimir Prelog, Ernst Ruska, Albert Hofmann, Victor Vasarely, and Roberto Rossellini. After him are Léopold Sédar Senghor, Sayyid Qutb, Giuseppe Farina, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Ilse Koch, and Sergei Korolev. Among people deceased in 2005, Hans Bethe ranks 13. Before him are Claude Simon, Arthur Miller, George Best, Paul Ricœur, Peter Drucker, and Simon Wiesenthal. After him are Rinus Michels, Rafic Hariri, Princess Joséphine Charlotte of Belgium, Omar Sívori, Zhao Ziyang, and Saul Bellow.

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In France

Among people born in France, Hans Bethe ranks 446 out of 6,770. Before him are Napoléon, Prince Imperial (1856), Théophile Gautier (1811), Gérard Philipe (1922), Charles Le Brun (1619), Johann Heinrich Lambert (1728), and Olympe de Gouges (1748). After him are Anouk Aimée (1932), Ernest Renan (1823), Henry of Flanders (1174), Jean Genet (1910), Nicolas Malebranche (1638), and Jean-Léon Gérôme (1824).

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Among PHYSICISTS In France

Among physicists born in France, Hans Bethe ranks 14. Before him are Léon Foucault (1819), Frédéric Joliot-Curie (1900), Jean Baptiste Perrin (1870), François Arago (1786), Albert Fert (1938), and Alfred Kastler (1902). After him are Benoît Paul Émile Clapeyron (1799), Louis Néel (1904), Jean-Baptiste Biot (1774), Hippolyte Fizeau (1819), Augustin-Jean Fresnel (1788), and Paul Langevin (1872).

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