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Victor Weisskopf | |
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 Weisskopf in the 1940s | |
| Born | September 19, 1908 |
| Died | April 22, 2002 (aged 93) Newton, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Nationality | Austria, United States |
| Alma mater | University of Göttingen |
| Awards | Max Planck Medal (1956) Oersted Medal (1976) National Medal of Science (1980) Wolf Prize (1981) Enrico Fermi Award (1988) Public Welfare Medal (1991) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Physics |
| Institutions | University of Leipzig University of Berlin ETH Zurich Niels Bohr Institute University of Rochester Manhattan Project MIT CERN |
| Thesis | Zur Theorie der Resonanzfluoreszenz (1931) |
| Doctoral advisor | Max Born |
| Doctoral students | J. Bruce French David H. Frisch Kerson Huang J. David Jackson Arthur Kerman Murray Gell-Mann Kurt Gottfried Raymond Stora Lawrence Biedenharn |
Victor Frederick "Viki" Weisskopf (also spelled Viktor; September 19, 1908 – April 22, 2002) was an Austrian-born American theoretical physicist. He did postdoctoral work with Werner Heisenberg, Erwin Schrödinger, Wolfgang Pauli, and Niels Bohr.[1] During World War II he was Deputy Division Leader of the Theoretical Division of the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos,[2] and he later campaigned against the proliferation of nuclear weapons.[3]
- ^ "Weisskopf dies at 93; was protégée of physicist Niels Bohr". MIT News. April 24, 2002. Retrieved February 20, 2015.
- ^ "Victor Weisskopf, Deputy Division Leader - Los Alamos Theoretical Division". Atomic Heritage Foundation. 2022. Retrieved January 29, 2024.
- ^ "War and Peace in the Nuclear Age; Weapon of Choice, The; Interview with Victor Weisskopf, 1986". openvault.wgbh.org. Retrieved June 5, 2017.