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Bethe
Hans Albrecht . born 1906, US physicist, born in Germany; noted for his research on astrophysics and nuclear physics: Nobel prize for physics 1967


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Hans Bethe, who liked to mull over his ideas during a morning bath, was one of the world's leading scientists, even before he was enlisted into the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos, New Mexico, which resulted in the first bomb being tested on July 16, 1945.
It was not until a later event when Professor Hans Bethe presented a lecture and referred to Feynman's theory, saying that people must learn it if they wanted to avoid talking nonsense, that Oppenheimer agreed with him.
As for discipline, the physicist Hans Bethe when asked what enabled him to solve the physics problem that made him famous replied, "Two things are required.
 
 
 
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