Hans Bethe
1906 to 2005
15 documented presences
14 places
Quo Fuit places 15 dated presences for Hans Bethe across 14 places, from 1906 to 2005. Each one keeps the sentence it was taken from and a link to its source.
Hans Albrecht Eduard Bethe (2 July 1906 – 6 March 2005) was a German-American physicist who made major contributions to nuclear physics, astrophysics, quantum electrodynamics and solid-state physics, and received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1967 for his work on the theory of stellar nucleosynthesis.Wikipedia, full article · CC BY-SA
Where Hans Bethe was documented, and when
2 July 1906exact date
Strasbourgattested
“Bethe was born in Strasbourg, which at the time was part of the Reichsland Elsaß-Lothringen, Germany, on July 2, 1906, the only child of Anna (née Kuhn) and Albrecht Bethe, a of physiology at the University of Strasbourg.”
source: Wikipedia: Hans Bethe
2 July 1906exact date
University of Strasbourgattested
“Bethe was born in Strasbourg, which at the time was part of the Reichsland Elsaß-Lothringen, Germany, on July 2, 1906, the only child of Anna (née Kuhn) and Albrecht Bethe, a of physiology at the University of Strasbourg.”
source: Wikipedia: Hans Bethe
September 1928month
Frankfurtattested
“When he met Wolfgang Pauli for the first time, Pauli told him: "After Sommerfeld's tales about you, I had expected much better from you than your thesis." "I guess from Pauli," Bethe later recalled, "that was a compliment." After Bethe r…”
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1929year
Frankfurtattested
“Bethe did not find the work in Frankfurt very stimulating, and in 1929 he accepted an offer from Ewald at the Technische Hochschule Stuttgart.”
source: Wikipedia: Hans Bethe
1929year
Technische Hochschule Stuttgartattested
“Bethe did not find the work in Frankfurt very stimulating, and in 1929 he accepted an offer from Ewald at the Technische Hochschule Stuttgart.”
source: Wikipedia: Hans Bethe
1930year
Cavendish Laboratoryattested
“In 1930, Bethe chose to do postdoctoral work at the Cavendish Laboratory at the University of Cambridge in England, where he worked under the supervision of Ralph Fowler.”
source: Wikipedia: Hans Bethe
1930year
University of Cambridgeattested
“In 1930, Bethe chose to do postdoctoral work at the Cavendish Laboratory at the University of Cambridge in England, where he worked under the supervision of Ralph Fowler.”
source: Wikipedia: Hans Bethe
1930year
Englandattested
“In 1930, Bethe chose to do postdoctoral work at the Cavendish Laboratory at the University of Cambridge in England, where he worked under the supervision of Ralph Fowler.”
source: Wikipedia: Hans Bethe
1932year
Italyattested
“The Rockefeller Foundation offered an extension of Bethe's fellowship, allowing him to return to Italy in 1932.”
source: Wikipedia: Hans Bethe
1932year
University of Tübingenattested
“In 1932, Bethe accepted an appointment as an assistant professor at the University of Tübingen, where Hans Geiger was the professor of experimental physics.”
source: Wikipedia: Hans Bethe
1935year
University of Bristolattested
“Bethe had already accepted a fellowship for a year to work with Nevill Mott at the University of Bristol for a semester, but Cornell agreed to let him start in the spring of 1935.”
source: Wikipedia: Hans Bethe
February 1935month
United Statesattested
“Bethe arrived in the United States in February 1935, and joined the faculty at Cornell University on a salary of $3,000.”
source: Wikipedia: Hans Bethe
June 2001month
Ontario, Canadaattested
“Bethe hoped that corroborating evidence would be found by the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory (SNO) in Ontario by his 90th birthday, but he did not get the call from SNO until June 2001, when he was nearly 95.”
source: Wikipedia: Hans Bethe
6 March 2005exact date
Ithaca, New Yorkattested
“He died in his home in Ithaca, New York, on March 6, 2005, of congestive heart failure.”
source: Wikipedia: Hans Bethe
6 March 2005exact date
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Places Hans Bethe is documented in
Frankfurt2 presences · 1928 to 1929England1 presence · 1930Italy1 presence · 1932Strasbourg1 presence · 1906United States1 presence · 1935University of Cambridge1 presence · 1930University of Strasbourg1 presence · 1906University of Tübingen1 presence · 1932
Cavendish Laboratory1 presence · 1930
Ithaca1 presence · 2005
Ithaca, New York1 presence · 2005
Ontario, Canada1 presence · 2001
Other places tied to Hans Bethe in the record
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1912year
Kiel Universitymentioned
“His father accepted a position as professor and director of the Institute of Physiology at Kiel University in 1912, and the family moved into the director's apartment at the institute.”
source: Wikipedia: Hans Bethe
1915year
University of Frankfurt am Mainmentioned
“The family moved again in 1915 when his father became the head of the new Institute of Physiology at the University of Frankfurt am Main.”
source: Wikipedia: Hans Bethe
1916year
Bad Kreuznachmentioned
“His education was interrupted in 1916, when he contracted tuberculosis, and he was sent to Bad Kreuznach to recuperate.”
source: Wikipedia: Hans Bethe
April 1926month
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Münchenmentioned
“Bethe entered the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München in April 1926, where Sommerfeld took him on as a student on Meissner's recommendation.”
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February 1931month
Romementioned
“For the second half of his scholarship, Bethe chose to go to Enrico Fermi's laboratory in Rome in February 1931.”
source: Wikipedia: Hans Bethe
1933year
Germanymentioned
“Bethe left Germany in 1933, moving to England after receiving an offer for a position as lecturer at the University of Manchester for a year through Sommerfeld's connection to William Lawrence Bragg.”
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1933year
Englandmentioned
“Bethe left Germany in 1933, moving to England after receiving an offer for a position as lecturer at the University of Manchester for a year through Sommerfeld's connection to William Lawrence Bragg.”
source: Wikipedia: Hans Bethe
September 1934month
Niels Bohr Institutementioned
“Before leaving for the United States, he visited the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen in September 1934, where he proposed to Hilde Levi, who accepted.”
source: Wikipedia: Hans Bethe
September 1934month
Copenhagenmentioned
“Before leaving for the United States, he visited the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen in September 1934, where he proposed to Hilde Levi, who accepted.”
source: Wikipedia: Hans Bethe
1937year
United Statesmentioned
“She had emigrated to the United States and was a student at Duke University and they met while Bethe was lecturing there in 1937.”
source: Wikipedia: Hans Bethe
1937year
Duke Universitymentioned
“She had emigrated to the United States and was a student at Duke University and they met while Bethe was lecturing there in 1937.”
source: Wikipedia: Hans Bethe
June 1942month
University of California, Berkeleymentioned
“In Chicago in June 1942, and then in July at the University of California, Berkeley, he participated in a series of meetings at the invitation of Robert Oppenheimer, which discussed the first designs for the atomic bomb.”
source: Wikipedia: Hans Bethe
16 July 1945exact date
New Mexicomentioned
“When it was detonated in the New Mexico desert on July 16, 1945, Bethe's immediate concern was for its efficient operation, and not its moral implications.”
source: Wikipedia: Hans Bethe
1947year
Germanymentioned
“Writing to Sommerfeld in 1947, Bethe confided that "I am much more at home in America than I ever was in Germany.”
source: Wikipedia: Hans Bethe
1947year
1947year
1957year
Documented at the same place, the same year
Wilhelm MaybachStuttgart · 1929Paul TillichFrankfurt · 1928Helen of Greece and DenmarkItaly · 1932David ProwseUniversity of Bristol · 1935Karl MannheimGoethe University Frankfurt · 1929Max WertheimerGoethe University Frankfurt · 1929Subrahmanyan ChandrasekharCavendish Laboratory · 1930Tunku Abdul RahmanCavendish Laboratory · 1930Fred AstaireGuildhall School of Music · 1930Harold PinterGuildhall School of Music · 1930Princess Alice of BattenbergGuildhall School of Music · 1930John GielgudGuildhall School of Music · 1930
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