Hans Bethe
Born
July 2, 1906
Died
March 6, 2005 (98 years old)
Known For
Acting
Place of Birth
Straßburg, Alsace, Germany [now Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France]
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.
