Hans Bethe

Hans Albrecht Bethe (pronounced "BAY-tuh"); (July 2 1906--March 6, 2005), was a German-American physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1967 for his work on the theory of stellar nucleosynthesis. During World War II, he was head of the Theoretical Division at the secret Los Alamos laboratory developing the first atomic bombs. There he played a key role in calculating the critical mass of the weapons, and did theoretical work on the implosion method used in both the Trinity test and the "Fat Man" weapon dropped on Nagasaki, Japan.
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Noun
1. United States physicist (born in Germany) noted for research in astrophysics and nuclear physics (born 1906)
(synonym) Bethe, Hans Albrecht Bethe
(hypernym) nuclear physicist