Hans Bethe won the Nobel Prize for his nuclear physics research.
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Used for several names that map to "Bay-tuh" in English/German: actress Bette Davis (贝特·戴维斯), physicist Hans Bethe (汉斯·贝特, Nobel 1967), and the German name Bert. 贝 also appears in 贝多芬 (Beethoven) and 贝克汉姆 (Beckham) as a stock B-syllable.