The Nobel Prize in Physics 1967
Awarded on: 1967-10-30
"for his contributions to the theory of nuclear reactions, especially his discoveries concerning the energy production in stars"
Affiliations:
- Cornell University – Ithaca, NY, USA
Hans Albrecht Bethe
Born: 1906-07-02 in Strasbourg, Germany (now France)
Gender: male
Field: German-American physicist (1906–2005)
Biography
Hans Albrecht Eduard Bethe 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.