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Bothe

[ boh-tuh ]

noun

  1. Wal·ther [vahl, -t, uh, r], 1891–1957, German physicist: Nobel Prize 1954.


Bothe

/ ˈboːte /

noun

  1. BotheWalther (Wilhelm Georg Franz)18911957MGermanSCIENCE: physicist Walther ( Wilhelm Georg Franz ) (ˈvaltər). 1891–1957, German physicist, who developed new methods of detecting subatomic particles. He shared the Nobel prize for physics 1954
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One woman, Herta Bothe, who was jailed for horrendous acts of violence, did later speak publicly.

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That was the final play on a mostly productive day for Stafford, who threw for 406 yards and three touchdowns but had a hand in bothe turnovers as well.

That was the final play on a mostly productive day for Stafford, who threw for 406 yards and three touchdowns but had a hand in bothe turnovers as well.

In fact, the Nazi bomb project was probably doomed early on, when German chemist Walther Bothe, distracted by a crisis in his love life, mistakenly concluded that heavy water would be a more suitable moderator than graphite in a nuclear reactor.

As Kean correctly notes , Bothe’s miscalculation was “one of the most consequential blunders in science history.”

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