Word: tubingen
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Part of Nazi Germany's precious, albeit unintentional, scientific legacy to the U.S., Hans Bethe was born in 1906 in Alsace and educated in German universities. When Hitler came to power in 1933, he was dismissed from his post as assistant professor of physics at the University of Tubingen (his mother was Jewish) and went to England. In 1935 he came to Cornell, where he has been a full professor since...