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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