Biography:Hans Bethe

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Hans Bethe
Hans Bethe
Hans Bethe


Fields Physics
Known for Hans Albrecht Eduard Bethe (; German: ˈhans ˈbeːtə ; 2 July 1906 – 6 March 2005) was a German-American physicist who made major contributions to nuclear physics, astrophysics, quantum electrodynamics and.

Hans Bethe is a biographical subject in the ScholarlyWiki science collection. Hans Albrecht Eduard Bethe (; German: ˈhans ˈbeːtə ; 2 July 1906 – 6 March 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.[1]

Work and context

In 1931, Bethe developed the Bethe ansatz, which is a method for finding the exact solutions for the eigenvalues and eigenvectors of certain one-dimensional quantum many-body models. In 1939, Bethe published a paper which established the CNO cycle as the primary energy source for heavier stars in the main sequence classification of stars, which earned him a Nobel Prize in 1967.

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