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| | Hans Bethe |
 | | Hans Bethe (pronounced beta) earned his Ph.D. in physics at the University of Munich in 1928, and in 1932 became an assistant professor at Tübingen University in lovely Tübingen, Germany. |
 | | Bethe had been raised in a Christian household, but his mother had been born Jewish, so as Hitler rose to power, Bethe's career evaporated. |
 | | Bethe was invited to work on the Manhattan Project, developing the atomic bomb, and he was skeptical about whether it could be built, but he felt he owed it to his adopted homeland. |
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