Victor Weisskopf

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Gender	Male
Death	21 years ago
Date of birth	September 19,1908
Zodiac sign	Virgo
Born	Vienna
	Austria
Date of died	April 22,2002
Died	Newton
	Massachusetts
	United States
Notable students	Murray Gell-Mann
	Robert H. Dicke
	John David Jackson
	Kurt Gottfried
	Kerson Huang
	Lawrence Biedenharn
Job	Physicist
	Educator
Books	Theoretical Nuclear Physics
	The joy of insight
	Knowledge and Wonder - 2nd Edition
	The privilege of being a physicist
	Physics in the twentieth century: selected essays
	The Development of Science During this Century: Talk Given at a CERN Colloquium on 5 August 1993
Current partner	Duscha Weisskopf
Education	University of Göttingen
Doctor advisor	Max Born
Children	Thomas E. Weisskopf
Date of Reg.	2019-03-13 21:55:17
Date of Upd.	2023-07-30 03:04:29
ID	624891

Wolf Prize in Physics
Max Planck Medal
National Medal of Science for Physical Science
Albert Einstein Medal
Oersted Medal
J. Robert Oppenheimer Memorial Prize
Public Welfare Medal
Prix mondial Cino Del Duca
Austrian Decoration for Science and Art
Guggenheim Fellowship for Natural Sciences, US & Canada
Enrico Fermi Award

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Victor Weisskopf Life story

Victor Frederick "Viki" Weisskopf was an Austrian-born American theoretical physicist. He did postdoctoral work with Werner Heisenberg, Erwin Schrödinger, Wolfgang Pauli, and Niels Bohr.