Hans Bethe

Born

1906-07-02

Died

2005-03-06

Birthplace

Straßburg, 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.