Selected photos of Hans Bethe
Click on any image for a high-resolution version. Permission is hereby granted to the news media to reproduce these images in connection with coverage of Hans Bethe and Cornell. Any other use requires special permission.
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| Hans Bethe rides a bike through the underground tunnel of the Cornell Electron Storage Ring, accomanied by Boyce McDaniel, then director of the Wilson SynchrotronCornell University photo by Sol Goldberg |
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| Hans Bethe at the blackboard at Cornell University in 1967 |
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| Hans Bethe, then the John Wendell Anderson Professor of Physics at Cornell University, meeting with president John F. Kennedy. |
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| Hans Bethe in 1995
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| Hans Bethe in 1986, wearing his Nobel medal
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| A portrait of Cornell Professor Emeritus Hans Bethe by artist Juergen Jaumann, commissioned by the physics department at Frankfurt University, which Bethe attended. It shows his face framed by the sun, commemorating his explanation of the hydrogen fusion reaction that powers the sun. |
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The photos below were taken on Dec. 19, 1996, by freelance photographer Michael Okoniewski. Permission is granted to the news media to reproduce these images in connection with coverage of Hans Bethe and Cornell. For any other use contact the photographer at photo@syracusephotographer.com or 315-463-6765. The equation on the blackboard in the first two photos is Bethe's "Carbon Cycle" equation for nuclear energy generation in stars.
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