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Bothe
[ boh-tuh ]
noun
- Wal·ther [vahl, -t, uh, r], 1891–1957, German physicist: Nobel Prize 1954.
Bothe
/ ˈboːte /
noun
- 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
Example Sentences
One woman, Herta Bothe, who was jailed for horrendous acts of violence, did later speak publicly.
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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