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Portrait of Hans Bethe

Hans Bethe

(1906–2005) Physicist

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Hans Bethe was a physicist, best known for Quantum mechanics of one- and two-electron atoms.

Quick Facts About Hans Bethe

Born: July 2, 1906
Died: March 6, 2005
Profession: Physicist
Notable works: Quantum mechanics of one- and two-electron atoms

About Hans Bethe

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.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Quotes by Hans Bethe

Well, I come down in the morning and I take up a pencil and I try to THINK.

Morning

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If we fight a war and win it with H-bombs, what history will remember is not the ideals we were fighting for,…

Accomplish

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No one any longer pays attention to - if I may call it - the spirit of physics, the idea of discovery,…

Attention

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I call on all scientists in all countries to cease and desist from work creating, developing, improving and manufacturing further nuclear weapons…

Armament

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Finally I got to carbon, and as you all know, in the case of carbon the reaction works out beautifully. One goes…

Atoms

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I am not a philosopher.

Philosopher

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Stars have a life cycle much like animals. They get born, they grow, they go through a definite internal development, and finally…

Animal

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Today we are rightly in an era of disarmament and dismantlement of nuclear weapons. But in some countries nuclear weapons development still…

Agree

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