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Victor Weisskopf
Sign in to saveAlso known as Victor Frederick Weisskopf, V. F. Weisskopf, Victor Frederick "Viki" Weisskopf, V.F. Weisskopf, Victor Frederik Weisskopf
Austrian American theoretical physicist (1908–2002)
Key facts
- Born
- ( 1908-09-19 ) September 19, 1908, Vienna , Austria-Hungary
- Died
- April 22, 2002 (2002-04-22) (aged 93), Newton, Massachusetts , U.S.
- 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)
- 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 George Yevick
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Frederik
- Family name
- Weisskopf
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Vienna
- Place of death
- Newton
- Occupation
- university teacher
- Educated at
- University of Göttingen
- Employer
- ETH Zurich
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Religion
- atheism
- Participant in
- Manhattan Project
- Academic degree
- Doctor of Philosophy
- Doctoral advisor
- Eugene Wigner
- Doctoral student
- John Dirk Walecka
- Field of work
- nuclear physics
- Image
- VictorWeisskopft-LosAlamos.jpg
- Residence
- Austria
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- member of
- Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei
- Commons category
- Victor Weisskopf
- date of birth
- 1908-09-19
- date of death
- 2002-04-21
- nominated for
- Nobel Prize in Physics
- student
- Murray Gell-Mann
- name in native language
- Victor Frederick Weisskopf
- maintained by WikiProject
- WikiProject Mathematics
- relative
- Willi Schmid
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Encyclopedic overview
Victor Frederick "Viki" Weisskopf (also spelled Viktor; September 19, 1908 – April 22, 2002) was an Austrian-born American theoretical physicist and Director-General of CERN from 1961 – 1965.
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