Bethe Late than Never

Instapundit notes that that Hans Bethe has died.

(How fleeting is fame.)

Okay, he did won the Nobel Prize, but for me his most memorable achievement was to co-author a paper he didn't write. George Gamow and Ralph Alpher stuck him in as second author of a 1948 paper they'd written, about the Big Bang.

The paper? "The Origin of Chemical Elements", by Alpher, Bethe, and Gamow.