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Hans Albrecht Bethe

1906 - 2005

Born

02/07/1906

Strasbourg, Germany

Died

06/03/2005

Ithaca, New York

Nationality
American
Gender
Male
Date of election for Royal Society fellowship
09/05/1957
Age at the time of election for Royal Society fellowship
50
Occupation
Theoretical physicist, played a vital role in the manhattan project - the development of the atom bomb at los alamos; Winner of nobel prize for physics for his 'carbon cycle' formula, which explains how the sun generates its energy