Victor Frederick Weisskopf

Infobox Scientist
name = Victor Weisskopf


caption = Victor Frederick Weisskopf in the 1940s.
birth_date = birth date|1908|9|19|mf=y
birth_place = Vienna, Austria-Hungary
death_date = death date and age|2002|4|22|1908|9|18
death_place = Newton, Massachusetts
residence = Austria, Denmark, Germany, Switzerland, United States
nationality= AUT USA
work_institution = 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
field = Physicist
prizes = Wolf Prize (1981)
religion = Atheist ["...Victor Weisskopf, who describes himself as an atheist Viennese Jew...." Quoting from page 14 of "The Prism of Science," by Edna Ullmann-Margalit, Springer, 1986.]
footnotes =

:"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 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.

Quotes

Bibliography

* cite book
coauthors=J. M. Blatt
title=Theoretical Nuclear Physics
location=New York
publisher=John Wiley
year=1952
first=Victor
last=Weisskopf
* cite book
title=Physics in the Twentieth Century: Selected Essays
location=Cambridge, Massachusetts
publisher=MIT Press
year=1972
first=Victor
last=Weisskopf
forward=Hans Bethe
* cite book
title=Knowledge and Wonder: The Natural World as Man Knows It
location=Cambridge, Massachusetts
publisher=MIT Press
year=1979
first=Victor
last=Weisskopf
* cite book
first = Victor
last = Weisskopf
coauthors= Kurt Gottfried
title=Concepts of Particle Physics, vol. 1
location=New York
publisher=Oxford University Press
year=1984
* cite book
first=Victor
last =Weisskopf
coauthors=Kurt Gottfried
title=Concepts of Particle Physics, vol. 2
location=New York
publisher=Oxford University Press
year=1986
* cite book
title=The Privilege of Being a Physicist. Essays.
first=Victor
last=Weisskopf
location=New York
publisher=W. H. Freeman
year=1989
* cite book
title=The Joy of Insight: Passions of a Physicist
first=Victor
last=Weisskopf
location=New York
publisher=Basic Books
year=1991

References

ources

* V. Stefan (Editor). "PHYSICS and SOCIETY. Essays in Honor of Victor Frederick Weisskopf by the International Community of Physicists." ISBN 1-56396-386-8

External links

* [http://www.nap.edu/readingroom/books/biomems/vweisskopf.html National Academy of Sciences biography]
* [http://alsos.wlu.edu/qsearch.aspx?browse=people/Weisskopf,+Victor Annotated bibliography for Victor Weisskopf from the Alsos Digital Library]
* [http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/conversations/Weisskopf/weisskopf0.html "A Scientist's Odyssey"] : A Conversation with Victor Weisskopf, April 7, 1988, transcript and RealMedia webcast
* [http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2002/weisskopf-0424.html Obituary of Victor Weisskopf from the MIT News Office]
* [http://cerncourier.com/cws/article/cern/28652 Obituary of Victor Weisskopf by former CERN Council president Wolfgang Kummer published in the CERN Courier]
* [http://web.mit.edu/physics/alumniandfriends/physicsatmit_02_weisskopf.pdf Remembrance of Victor Weisskopf by Kurt Gottfied]
* [http://www.aip.org/history/ohilist/4944.html Oral history interview transcript with Victor Fredrick Weisskopf 10 July 1965, American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library & Archives]

Persondata
NAME= Weisskopf, Victor Frederick
ALTERNATIVE NAMES=
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