Victor Frederick Weisskopf
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 Victor Frederick Weisskopf in the 1940s. |
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| Born | 19 September 1908 Vienna, Austria-Hungary |
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| Died | 22 April 2002 Newton, Massachusetts |
| Residence |  Austria United States |
| Field | Physicist |
| Institution | University of Leipzig University of Berlin ETH Zurich Bohr Institute University of Rochester Manhattan Project MIT CERN |
| Alma mater | University of Göttingen |
| Academic advisor | Max Born  Eugene Wigner |
| Notable students | Kerson Huang J. David Jackson Murray Gell-Mann |
| Notable prizes | Wolf Prize (1981) |
| Religion | Jewish |
- 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 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 prestigious Prix mondial Cino Del Duca in 1972, National Medal of Science (1980), Wolf Prize (1981).
He married Ellen Tvede.
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[edit] References
- 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] Quotes
"Human existence is based upon two pillars: Compassion and knowledge. Compassion without knowledge is ineffective; knowledge without compassion is inhuman."
[edit] Books
- 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.
[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
- Rememberance of Victor Weisskopf by Kurt Gottfied
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