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 in Physics in 1967 for his work on the theory of stellar nucleosynthesis. For most of his career, Bethe was a professor at Cornell University. The Nobel Prize in Physics 1967, announced October 30, 1967. Hans Bethe, “for his contributions to the theory of nuclear reactions, especially his discoveries concerning the energy production in stars”. Hans Bethe: born 1906, Strasbourg, Germany (now France). Wiki link Data: the Nobel Foundation (CC0).