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Bothe

American

[boh-tuh] / ˈboʊ tə /

noun

Walther 1891–1957, German physicist: Nobel Prize 1954.

Bothe British

/ ˈboːte /

noun

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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The nursing homes earn their Medicaid money when they take on these most difficult cases, Bothe said.

From Washington Times • May 12, 2017

In the end Lenard clung on at Heidelberg until 1929, when he was replaced by Walther Bothe.

From Scientific American • Feb. 13, 2015

Bothe sides will try to win in Columbus, Dayton and Canton.

From Time Magazine Archive

After Physicist Walther Bothe calculated that graphite would not be an effective "moderator"�the material that slows down neutrons in a reactor�no German scientist thought to question him.

From Time Magazine Archive

In the city of Heidelberg, Goudsmit cornered a physicist named Walther Bothe, a man he’d known before the war.

From "Bomb" by Steve Sheinkin

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