Hans Bethe
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Hans Albrecht Eduard Bethe was a German-American physicist who made major contributions to nuclear physics, astrophysics, quantum electrodynamics and solid-state physics, and received the Nobel Prize
Hans Bethe
Hans Bethe, aged 12, with his parents
Bethe's Los Alamos Laboratory ID badge
Hans Bethe lecturing at Dalhousie University, 1978
Richard Feynman
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Richard Phillips Feynman was an American theoretical physicist. He shared the 1965 Nobel Prize in Physics with Julian Schwinger and Shin'ichirō Tomonaga "for their fundamental work in quantum electrod
Hans Bethe
…included calculating the critical mass and efficiency of uranium-235 and the multiplication of nuclear fission in an exploding atomic bomb. Along with Richard Feynman, he developed a formula for calculating the bomb's explosive yield. After August 1944, when the laboratory was reorganized and reoriented to solve the…
Feynman c. 1965
MIT yearbook portrait (1939)
Feynman's Los Alamos ID badge
At the 1946 colloquium on the "Super" at the Los Alamos Laboratory. Feynman is in the second row, fourth from left, next to Oppenheimer.