Word: frankforter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...brilliant theorist in atomic physics, modest, demure Dr. Bethe probes straight to the core of an abstruse problem, then brings to bear on that core his remarkable mathematical equipment so that the answer comes leap ing out like a weasel out of a smoked hole. Educated at Kiel, Frankfort and Munich, Hans Bethe, whose mother is Jewish, was holding a post at Munich when the Nazis came in. He left Germany in 1933, taught and researched in England for a while, went to Cornell in 1935. Author of five major treatises and some 50 miscellaneous articles on nuclear physics...