Bethe

[ bey-tuh ]

noun

1. Hans Al·brecht [hanz , awl, -brekt, hahns, hahns , ahl, -b, r, e, kh, t], 1906–2005, U.S. physicist, born in Alsace: Nobel Prize 1967.

Bethe

/ ˈbeɪtə /

noun

1. BetheHans Albrecht19062005MUSGermanSCIENCE: physicist Hans Albrecht (hans ˈalbrɛçt). 1906–2005, US physicist, born in Germany; noted for his research on astrophysics and nuclear physics: Nobel prize for physics 1967

Bethe

/ bā′tə /

1. German-born American physicist who was instrumental in the development of quantum physics. Bethe also played an important role in the development of the atomic bomb, later working to educate the public about the threat of nuclear weapons. In 1967 he received a Nobel Prize for explaining that the Sun and other stars derive their energy from a series of nuclear reactions which came to be known as the carbon cycle , or Bethe cycle.

Example Sentences

Hans Bethe, Neils Bohr, J. Robert Oppenheimer and Leo Szilard all contributed to this book and it was the first major publication that said we are in the atomic age.

From Scientific American

In fact, it had been raised very briefly in 1942 and promptly put to rest by Manhattan Project physicist Hans Bethe, who later called it “absolute nonsense.”

From Los Angeles Times

One of Bethe’s recipes, still stirred into some fusion simulations, involves the movement of charged particles.

From Science Magazine

Mr. Blackwood also made films about subjects who were not artists, like the Nobel Prize-winning physicist Hans Bethe and the diplomat George F. Kennan, and several about Germany and German Americans.

From New York Times

More than 30 years later, we published technical criticisms, also by Bethe and other physicists, of a space-based missile defense system known as Star Wars.

From Scientific American