Victor Weisskopf
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. During World War II he was Deputy Division Leader of the Theoretical Division of the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos, and he later campaigned against the proliferation of nuclear weapons.
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 |
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