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- Birth nameHans Albrecht Bethe
- Hans Bethe was born on July 2, 1906 in Straßburg, Alsace, Germany [now Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France]. He was married to Rose Ewald. He died on March 6, 2005 in Ithaca, New York, USA.
- SpouseRose Ewald(September 13, 1939 - March 6, 2005) (his death, 2 children)
- Winner of the 1967 Nobel Prize in Physics.
- Nuclear physicist.
- Bethe's name, which is pronounced BAY-ta, was added to an article on cosmogenesis published by Ukrainian physicist George Gamow and American physicist Ralph Alpher, "The Origin of Chemical Elements" (1948). This article heralded the Big Bang theory of the origin of the universe. It became known as the Alpher-Bethe-Gamow theory, Gamow having playfully added Bethe's name to make a pun on the first three letters of the Greek alphabet, alpha beta gamma.
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