Hans Bethe - Honors and Awards

Honors and Awards

Awards and honors

  • Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1947)
  • Henry Draper Medal of the National Academy of Sciences (1947)
  • Max Planck medal (1955)
  • Franklin Medal (1959)
  • Eddington Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society (1961)
  • Enrico Fermi Award (1961)
  • Rumford Prize (1963)
  • Nobel Prize in Physics (1967)
  • National Medal of Science (1975)
  • Lomonosov Gold Medal (1989)
  • Oersted Medal (1993)
  • Bruce Medal (2001)
  • Benjamin Franklin Medal for Distinguished Achievement in the Sciences of the American Philosophical Society (2005)

Named after him

  • Asteroid 30828 Bethe
  • Hans Bethe Prize of the American Physical Society
  • Hans Bethe House at Cornell University
  • Bethe ansatz, a method for finding the exact solutions of certain one-dimensional quantum many-body models
  • Hans Bethe Center, 322 4th St. NE, Washington, DC 20002. The Center is home to the Council for a Livable World, where Bethe was a longtime board member.
  • Bethe Center for Theoretical Physics, University of Bonn, Germany
  • Bethe-Salpeter equation
  • Bethe formula

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