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Hans Bethe

1906 - 2005

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Hans Albrecht 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. During World War II, he was head of the Theoretical Division at the secret Los Alamos laboratory that developed the first atomic bombs. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hans Bethe has received more than 1,433,389 page views. His biography is available in 85 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 79 in 2019). Hans Bethe is the 84th most popular physicist (up from 146th in 2019), the 381st most popular biography from France (up from 677th in 2019) and the 10th 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 84 out of 851. Before him are Manne Siegbahn, C. F. Powell, Charles Glover Barkla, Percy Williams Bridgman, Charles Thomson Rees Wilson, and John Bardeen. After him are Victor Francis Hess, Albert A. Michelson, Jean Baptiste Perrin, Clinton Davisson, Carl Zeiss, and Wilhelm Eduard Weber.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1906, Hans Bethe ranks 22. Before him are Hassan al-Banna, Sayyid Qutb, Sergei Korolev, Faisal of Saudi Arabia, Billy Wilder, and Henri Charrière. After him are Roberto Rossellini, Ernst Ruska, Emmanuel Levinas, Ilse Koch, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, and Soichiro Honda. Among people deceased in 2005, Hans Bethe ranks 11. Before him are George Best, Arthur Miller, Fahd of Saudi Arabia, Claude Simon, Rinus Michels, and Peter Drucker. After him are Paul Ricœur, Simon Wiesenthal, Rafic Hariri, Omar Sívori, Ezer Weizman, and Kenzō Tange.

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In France

Among people born in France, Hans Bethe ranks 381 out of 6,770. Before him are Ève Curie (1904), André Malraux (1901), Marin Mersenne (1588), Théophile Gautier (1811), Marc-Antoine Charpentier (1645), and John Vianney (1786). After him are Louis-Nicolas Davout (1770), Jean-Martin Charcot (1825), Jeanne d'Albret (1528), Jean Baptiste Perrin (1870), Léo Delibes (1836), and Louis IV of France (920).

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Among PHYSICISTS In France

Among physicists born in France, Hans Bethe ranks 10. Before him are Charles-Augustin de Coulomb (1736), Henry Cavendish (1731), Frédéric Joliot-Curie (1900), Léon Foucault (1819), Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis (1792), and Louis de Broglie (1892). After him are Jean Baptiste Perrin (1870), François Arago (1786), Alfred Kastler (1902), Jean-Baptiste Biot (1774), Hippolyte Fizeau (1819), and Paul Langevin (1872).

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