Victor Frederick Weisskopf
Physicist, Academic
1908 – 2002
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Who was Victor Frederick Weisskopf?
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. During World War II he was Group Leader of the Theoretical Division of the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos, and later campaigned against the proliferation of nuclear weapons.
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- Born
- Sep 19, 1908
Vienna - Also known as
- Victor F Weisskopf
- Religion
- Atheism
- Judaism
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Austria
- Germany
- Switzerland
- Profession
- Education
- University of Göttingen
- Employment
- University of Leipzig
- Humboldt University of Berlin
- ETH Zurich
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- University of Rochester
- Lived in
- Austria
- Vienna
- Died
- Apr 22, 2002
Newton
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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