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Hans Bethe House

"It's a comfortable community, right where you live, for people who have trouble getting acclimated to the university because it's so large," says house resident Cara Rader '10. "It's great."

Hans Bethe House is named in tribute to late Nobel Prize-winning physicist Hans Bethe (1906-2005). Bethe was one of the most honored faculty members in Cornell's history. It was at Cornell that he published his famous reviews of nuclear physics in the late 1930s and worked on the theory of energy production in stars for which he won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1967.

The house, which opened in 2007, is led by house professor and dean Porus Olpadwala, professor of city and regional planning and former dean of the College of Architecture, Art, and Planning.

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