Hans Bethe
Acting
July 2, 1906
— March 6, 2005Straßburg, Alsace, Germany [now Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France]
Biography
Hans Albrecht Bethe 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.
