Hans Bethe

Hans Albrecht Bethe was a German and American nuclear physicist who, in addition to making important contributions to astrophysics, quantum electrodynamics and solidstate physics, won the 1967 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on the theory of stellar nucleosynthesis.

Bethe was born in Strasbourg, which was then part of Germany, on July 2, 1906, the only child of Anna and Albrecht Bethe, a privatdozent of physiology at the University of Strasbourg. Although his mother, the daughter of a professor at the University of Strasbourg, was Jewish, he was raised a Protestant like his father. Despite having a religious background, he was not religious in later life, and described himself as an atheist.

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