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Victor Weisskopf |
| Victor Weisskopf | |
 Victor Frederick Weisskopf in the 1940s.
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| Born | September 19, 1908 Vienna, Austria-Hungary |
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| Died | April 22, 2002 (aged 93) Newton, Massachusetts |
| Residence | Austria, Denmark, Germany, Switzerland, United States |
| Nationality |  Austria  United States |
| Fields | Physicist |
| Institutions | University of Leipzig University of Berlin ETH Zurich Bohr Institute University of Rochester Manhattan Project MIT CERN |
| Alma mater | University of Göttingen |
| Doctoral advisor | Max Born Eugene Wigner |
| Doctoral students | Kerson Huang J. David Jackson Murray Gell-Mann |
| Notable awards | Wolf Prize (1981) |
| Religious stance | Atheist1 |
Victor Frederick Weisskopf (September 19, 1908 – April 22, 2002) was an Austrian American theoretical 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 Prix mondial Cino Del Duca in 1972, National Medal of Science (1980), and Wolf Prize (1981).
He married Ellen Tvede.
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| “ | Human existence is based upon two pillars: Compassion and knowledge. Compassion without knowledge is ineffective; knowledge without compassion is inhuman. | ” |
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| NAME | Weisskopf, Victor Frederick |
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| SHORT DESCRIPTION | Austrian-American Physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 19 September 1908 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna, Austria-Hungary |
| DATE OF DEATH | 22 April 2002 |
| PLACE OF DEATH | Newton, Massachusetts |
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