When physicist Hans Bethe first heard of the atomic bomb project he thought it an impractical idea and he didn't want to get involved with it. He told a biographer after the war that, "I considered ...

"A beloved mentor to generations of Cornell physicists, whose efforts helped to transform the Cornell University Physics Department into one of the world's great centers of physics." This statement ...

Hans Bethe, who has died aged 98, was one of the greatest innovative theoretical physicists of our time, the man who in the 1930s unravelled the mysterious nuclear cycles by which stars produce ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American The 70 th anniversary of the bombings of ...

Hans Bethe, a key figure in designing the atomic bomb, died at home Sunday at 98. Bethe, who left Nazi Germany and joined the Cornell University faculty in 1935, led the Manhattan Project's ...

Hans Bethe, the nuclear physicist whose elegant calculations explained how stars shine and laid the foundation for development of both the atomic and hydrogen bombs, has died. He was 98. Bethe, who ...

Quantum calculations amount to sophisticated estimates. But in 1931, Hans Bethe intuited precisely how a chain of particles would behave — an insight that had far-reaching consequences. By 1928, ...

ITHACA, N.Y. (AP) — Hans A. Bethe, a giant of 20th-century physics who played a central role in the building of the atomic bomb and won a Nobel Prize for discovering the process that powers the sun ...

Hans Bethe was one of the outstanding scientists of the twentieth century, making seminal contributions to almost all areas of theoretical physics. When he died in 2005, aged 98, he was the last of ...

When physicist Hans Bethe first heard of the atomic bomb project he thought it an impractical idea and he didn't want to get involved with it. He told a biographer after the war that, "I considered ...