I am not a philosopher.

United States Department of Energy (through predecessor agency the Atomic Energy Commission) (January 31 1950). Bethe H. At Cornell Bethe became known as one of the leading theoretical physicists of his generation and along with upcoming physicists such as cyclotron pioneer Milton Stanley Livingston and later after the war experimentalist Robert R.

For most of his career Bethe was a professor at Cornell University. He influenced the White House to sign the ban of atmospheric nuclear tests in 1963 and the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty SALT I. His scientific research never ceased even into the later years of his life and he was publishing papers well into his nineties.