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Published online 8 March 2005 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news050307-7

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Hans Bethe

Nuclear physicist dies at 98.

Nobel laureate Hans Bethe, who played a key role in designing the first atomic bomb and worked out how stars generate their energy, died on Sunday 6 March, aged 98.

Bethe had been a professor of physics at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, since 1935.

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