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Victor Weisskopf

1908 - 2002

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Victor Frederick "Viki" Weisskopf (also spelled Viktor; September 19, 1908 – April 22, 2002) 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 Deputy Division Leader of the Theoretical Division of the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos, and he later campaigned against the proliferation of nuclear weapons. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Victor Weisskopf is the 234th most popular physicist (up from 283rd in 2019), the 176th most popular biography from Austria (up from 270th in 2019) and the 7th most popular Austrian Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Victor Weisskopf ranks 234 out of 851. Before him are Frederick Reines, Klaus Fuchs, Edme Mariotte, Robert Hofstadter, Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, and Jacques Charles. After him are Tsung-Dao Lee, Leo Esaki, Vitaly Ginzburg, Nikolay Basov, Arthur Ashkin, and Willard Boyle.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1908, Victor Weisskopf ranks 41. Before him are Joseph Rotblat, Nelson Rockefeller, Manoel de Oliveira, Alfred Hershey, Willard Libby, and David Lean. After him are Tameo Ide, Joseph McCarthy, Werner von Haeften, Cesare Pavese, William Saroyan, and Carole Lombard. Among people deceased in 2002, Victor Weisskopf ranks 28. Before him are Fritz Walter, Ivan Illich, Rod Steiger, Linda Lovelace, Alexander Prokhorov, and Max Perutz. After him are Nándor Hidegkuti, Valeriy Lobanovskyi, Ruth Handler, Edsger W. Dijkstra, Geraldine of Albania, and Choi Hong Hi.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Victor Weisskopf ranks 176 out of 1,424. Before him are Charles V, Duke of Lorraine (1643), Ernst Gombrich (1909), Archduchess Maria Josepha of Austria (1751), Lothar Rendulic (1887), Maria Theresa of Austria (1816), and Leopold V, Duke of Austria (1157). After him are Paul Ehrenfest (1880), Helmut Marko (1943), Karl Polanyi (1886), Anne of Austria, Queen of Poland (1573), Alfred Schütz (1899), and Michael Haydn (1737).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Austria

Among physicists born in Austria, Victor Weisskopf ranks 7. Before him are Erwin Schrödinger (1887), Lise Meitner (1878), Wolfgang Pauli (1900), Ludwig Boltzmann (1844), Christian Doppler (1803), and Victor Francis Hess (1883). After him are Anton Zeilinger (1945), Walter Kohn (1923), Otto Robert Frisch (1904), Fritjof Capra (1939), Berta Karlik (1904), and Marian Smoluchowski (1872).

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