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Hans Bethe aos 12 anos de idade em companhia de seus pais
Estudou física em Frankfurt, obteve seu doutorado pela Universidade de Munique, com supervisão de Arnold Sommerfeld, e depois fez o pós-doutorado em Cambridge e no laboratório de Enrico Fermi, em Roma. Deixou a Alemanha em 1933, quando os nazistas tomaram o poder e perdeu seu emprego (sua mãe era judia) na Universidade de Tübingen, mudando-se para a Inglaterra, onde obteve uma posição provisória de conferencista nos anos de 1933 e 1934, e no fim de 1934, uma bolsa de estudo na universidade de Bristol. Na Inglaterra, Bethe trabalhou com o teórico Rudolf Peierls em uma compreensiva teoria do deutério.
Em 1935 Bethe mudou-se para os Estados Unidos e ligou-se à Universidade de Cornell, um trabalho que exerceu durante toda sua carreira. Em Cornell, Bethe ficou conhecido como um dos físicos teóricos líderes da sua geração, e junto com outros grandes físicos como Milton Stanley Livingston (um pioneiro do cíclotron) e depois, após a guerra, o experimentalista Robert R. Wilson e o teórico Robert Bacher, colocou Cornell no mapa mundial da física. Bethe publicou uma série de artigos sobre física nuclear, sintetizando muito do que era conhecido naquele tempo, um trabalho que ficou conhecido como 'A bíblia de Bethe', e continuou o trabalho padrão no assunto por muitos anos. Nesse trabalho, continuou trabalhando onde outros haviam desistido, e preencheu lacunas da antiga literatura. De 1935 a 1938 estudou reações nucleares e reações seção eficaz (ciclo carbono-oxigênio-nitrogênio), dirigindo a sua importante contribuição à nucleossíntese estelar. Essa pesquisa foi posteriormente proveitosa para Bethe, desenvolvendo a teoria de complexo nuclear de Niels Bohr.
↑«Interview with Hans Bethe by Charles Weiner at Cornell University». American Institute of Physics. 17 de novembro de 1967. Consultado em 1 de fevereiro de 2016. When asked by Charles Weiner if there was religion in his home, Bethe replied: "No. My father was, I think, slightly religious. I was taught to pray in the evening before going to bed, and I attended the Protestant religious instruction, which was given in the schools in Germany. I was also confirmed, and the instruction which I got in this connection got religion out of my system completely. It was never very strong before, and the confirmation had the consequence that I just didn't believe."
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