Nobel winner Hans Bethe, `The Battleship' of Los Alamos, dies at 98: "At his zenith, there seemed to be few well-defined conundrums of the cosmos that Bethe couldn't master. He could not program the simplest computer, but had no trouble digesting reams of supercomputer readouts. For help, he reached into his briefcase for a slide rule he had carried around for 70 years.

He also had a habit of taking a 30-minute bath each morning.

'You sleep and things get somewhat unscrambled in your mind,' he said in 1996. 'Then in the bath, I can become conscious of that.' "

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