Honors
Bothe was awarded a number of honors:
- Member of the Academy of Sciences of Göttingen
- Member of the Academy of Sciences of Heidelberg
- Corresponding Member of the Saxon Academy of Sciences, Leipzig
- Grand Cross of the Order for Federal Services
- 1952 – Knight of the Order of Merit for Sciences and the Arts
- 1953 – Max-Planck-Medaille of the Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft
- 1954 – Nobel Prize in Physics "for the coincidence method and his discoveries made therewith". Bothe received half of the prize; the other half was awarded to Max Born.
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