Victor Frederick Weisskopf
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| Victor Weisskopf | |
 Victor Frederick Weisskopf in the 1940s.
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| Born | September 19, 1908 Vienna, Austria-Hungary |
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| Died | April 22, 2002 (aged 93) Newton, Massachusetts |
| Residence | Austria, Denmark, Germany, Switzerland, United States |
| Nationality |  Austria  United States |
| Fields | Physicist |
| Institutions | University of Leipzig University of Berlin ETH Zurich Bohr Institute University of Rochester Manhattan Project MIT CERN |
| Alma mater | University of Göttingen |
| Doctoral advisor | Max Born  Eugene Wigner |
| Doctoral students | Kerson Huang J. David Jackson Murray Gell-Mann |
| Notable awards | Wolf Prize (1981) |
| Religious stance | Atheist[1] |
- Weisskopf redirects here. For people known under English version of that name, see Whitehead.
Victor Frederick Weisskopf (September 19, 1908 – April 22, 2002) was an Austrian American theoretical physicist. During World War II he worked at Los Alamos on the Manhattan Project to develop the atomic bomb, and later campaigned against the proliferation of nuclear weapons. Weisskopf was a co-founder and board member of the Union of Concerned Scientists. He served as director-general of CERN from 1961-1966.
Weisskopf was awarded the Max Planck medal in 1956 and the Prix mondial Cino Del Duca in 1972, National Medal of Science (1980), and Wolf Prize (1981).
He married Ellen Tvede.
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| “ | Human existence is based upon two pillars: Compassion and knowledge. Compassion without knowledge is ineffective; knowledge without compassion is inhuman. | ” |
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- Weisskopf, Victor; J. M. Blatt (1952). Theoretical Nuclear Physics. New York: John Wiley.
- Weisskopf, Victor (1972). Physics in the Twentieth Century: Selected Essays. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press.
- Weisskopf, Victor (1979). Knowledge and Wonder: The Natural World as Man Knows It. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press.
- Weisskopf, Victor; Kurt Gottfried (1984). Concepts of Particle Physics, vol. 1. New York: Oxford University Press.
- Weisskopf, Victor; Kurt Gottfried (1986). Concepts of Particle Physics, vol. 2. New York: Oxford University Press.
- Weisskopf, Victor (1989). The Privilege of Being a Physicist. Essays.. New York: W. H. Freeman.
- Weisskopf, Victor (1991). The Joy of Insight: Passions of a Physicist. New York: Basic Books.
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[edit] Sources
- V. Stefan (Editor). PHYSICS and SOCIETY. Essays in Honor of Victor Frederick Weisskopf by the International Community of Physicists. ISBN 1-56396-386-8
[edit] External links
- National Academy of Sciences biography
- Annotated bibliography for Victor Weisskopf from the Alsos Digital Library
- "A Scientist's Odyssey": A Conversation with Victor Weisskopf, April 7, 1988, transcript and RealMedia webcast
- Obituary of Victor Weisskopf from the MIT News Office
- Obituary of Victor Weisskopf by former CERN Council president Wolfgang Kummer published in the CERN Courier
- Rememberance of Victor Weisskopf by Kurt Gottfied
- Oral history interview transcript with Victor Fredrick Weisskopf 10 July 1965, American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library & Archives
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| NAME | Weisskopf, Victor Frederick |
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| SHORT DESCRIPTION | Austrian-American Physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 19 September 1908 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna, Austria-Hungary |
| DATE OF DEATH | 22 April 2002 |
| PLACE OF DEATH | Newton, Massachusetts |
Categories: 1908 births | 2002 deaths | People from Vienna | Albert Einstein Medal recipients | Austrian-American Jews | Austrian physicists | Enrico Fermi Award recipients | ETH Zurich faculty | Jewish atheists | Jewish American scientists | Manhattan Project people | National Medal of Science laureates | Wolf Prize in Physics laureates | CERN
