Victor Weisskopf
Austrian-born American theoretical physicist (1908–2002) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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]
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Victor Weisskopf | |
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Born | (1908-09-19)September 19, 1908 |
Died | April 22, 2002(2002-04-22) (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 |
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