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Hans Bethe

1906 - 2005

Hans Bethe

Hans Albrecht Bethe (German pronunciation: [ˈhans ˈbeːtə] (listen); July 2, 1906 – March 6, 2005) was a German-American theoretical physicist who made major contributions to nuclear physics, astrophysics, quantum electrodynamics, and solid-state physics, and who won the 1967 Nobel Prize in Physics 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 787,976 page views. His biography is available in 79 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 76 in 2019). Hans Bethe is the 146th most popular physicist (down from 141st in 2019), the 678th most popular biography from France (down from 669th in 2019) and the 20th 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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65.29
Historical Popularity Index (HPI)
79
Languages Editions (L)
8.26
Effective Languages (L*)
4.72
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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Hans Bethe ranks 146 out of 717. Before him are Frits Zernike, Hideki Yukawa, Robert Coleman Richardson, Felix Bloch, Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, and Karl Schwarzschild. After him are William Shockley, Johann Jakob Balmer, Ben Roy Mottelson, Martin Lewis Perl, Rudolf Mössbauer, and Hans Geiger.

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Frits Zernike
1888 - 1966
HPI: 65.61
Rank: 140
Hideki Yukawa
1907 - 1981
HPI: 65.56
Rank: 141
Robert Coleman Richardson
1937 - 2013
HPI: 65.54
Rank: 142
Felix Bloch
1905 - 1983
HPI: 65.54
Rank: 143
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
1742 - 1799
HPI: 65.51
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Karl Schwarzschild
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HPI: 65.43
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Hans Bethe
1906 - 2005
HPI: 65.29
Rank: 146
William Shockley
1910 - 1989
HPI: 65.24
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Johann Jakob Balmer
1825 - 1898
HPI: 65.09
Rank: 148
Ben Roy Mottelson
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HPI: 64.97
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Martin Lewis Perl
1927 - 2014
HPI: 64.93
Rank: 150
Rudolf Mössbauer
1929 - 2011
HPI: 64.92
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Hans Geiger
1882 - 1945
HPI: 64.92
Rank: 152

Contemporaries

Among people born in 1906, Hans Bethe ranks 39. Before him are Alexey Stakhanov, Léopold Sédar Senghor, Josef Kramer, John Huston, Wassily Leontief, and James E. Webb. After him are Dino Buzzati, Marcelo Caetano, Philip Johnson, Robert E. Howard, Vladimir Prelog, and Franz Joseph II, Prince of Liechtenstein. Among people deceased in 2005, Hans Bethe ranks 21. Before him are Saul Bellow, Aslan Maskhadov, Omar Sívori, Rafic Hariri, Kenzō Tange, and Zdzisław Beksiński. After him are Princess Joséphine Charlotte of Belgium, Jack Kilby, James Callaghan, Sister Lúcia, Philip Johnson, and Ernst Mayr.

Others Born in 1906

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Alexey Stakhanov
1906 - 1977
HPI: 67.02
Rank: 33
Léopold Sédar Senghor
1906 - 2001
HPI: 66.98
Rank: 34
Josef Kramer
1906 - 1945
HPI: 66.54
Rank: 35
John Huston
1906 - 1987
HPI: 66.51
Rank: 36
Wassily Leontief
1906 - 1999
HPI: 66.18
Rank: 37
James E. Webb
1906 - 1992
HPI: 65.95
Rank: 38
Hans Bethe
1906 - 2005
HPI: 65.29
Rank: 39
Dino Buzzati
1906 - 1972
HPI: 65.27
Rank: 40
Marcelo Caetano
1906 - 1980
HPI: 64.98
Rank: 41
Philip Johnson
1906 - 2005
HPI: 64.36
Rank: 42
Robert E. Howard
1906 - 1936
HPI: 64.36
Rank: 43
Vladimir Prelog
1906 - 1998
HPI: 64.13
Rank: 44
Franz Joseph II, Prince of Liechtenstein
1906 - 1989
HPI: 64.03
Rank: 45