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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.
Victor Frederick Weisskopf (ur. 19 września 1908 w Wiedniu [1], zm. 22 kwietnia 2002 w Newton w stanie Massachusetts) – fizyk austriacko-amerykański. Podczas II wojny światowej pracował w Los Alamos w Projekcie Manhattan przy budowie bomby atomowej . Po wojnie był dyrektorem CERN .
Victor Frederik Weisskopf (1908–2002, Austrian) was born in Austria in 1908. He first came to CERN as a guest professor in the Theoretical Studies Division in 1957, where he stayed for a year, conducting research on the 600 MeV Synchrocyclotron .
Weisskopf was a co-founder and board member of the Union of Concerned Scientists. He served as director-general of CERN from 1961 to 1966. Weisskopf was awarded the Max Planck medal in 1956 and the Prix mondial Cino Del Duca in 1972, the National Medal of Science (1980), the Wolf Prize (1981) and the Public Welfare Medal from the National ...
The collection documents the professional life and career of Victor Frederick Weisskopf (1908-2002) from the 1920s through 2002. Educated in Europe in the 1920s and 1930s, Weisskopf made contributions to the quantum theory of radiative transitions, the self-energy of electrons, the electrodynamic properties of the vacuum, and the theory of ...
As a member of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences he was instrumental in persuading the Pope to speak on the dangers of nuclear weapons. Weisskopf was born in Vienna, Austria, on September 19, 1908. In his nineties and increasingly frail, he died at home in Newton, Massachusetts, on April 22, 2002.
23 maj 2002 · Victor F. Weisskopf (1908–2002) Kurt Gottfried. Nature 417 , 396 ( 2002) Cite this article. 501 Accesses. Metrics. Victor Weisskopf, who died on 21 April at the ripe age of 93, had, as he...
