| Victor Weisskopf  AKA Victor Frederick Weisskopf
Born: 19-Sep-1908
Birthplace: Vienna, Austria
Died: 21-Apr-2002
Location of death: Newton, MA
Cause of death: Heart Failure
Gender: Male
Religion: Jewish
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Physicist Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Head of CERN, 1961-65 Father: Emil Weisskopf (lawyer)
Mother: Martha
Wife: Ellen Tvede (m. 4-Sep-1934, d. 1989)
Son: Thomas E. Weisskopf (professor of economics)
Daughter: Karen Worth
Wife: Duscha Scott
University: PhD Physics, University of Göttingen (1931)
Scholar: Research Assistant, University of Copenhagen (1932-33)
Scholar: Institute of Technology, Zürich (1934-36)
Professor: University of Rochester
Professor: Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1946-60)
Professor: Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1965-73)
Manhattan Project Theory Division
CERN Director General (1961-65)
American Academy of Arts and Sciences President (1976-79)
National Academy of Sciences
American Physical Society President (1960-61)
Union of Concerned Scientists Board Member
Max Planck Medal 1956
Oersted Medal 1976
National Medal of Science 1980
Wolf Prize in Physics 1981 (with Freeman Dyson and Gerardus 't Hooft)
Albert Einstein Medal 1984
Enrico Fermi Award 1988
Naturalized US Citizen 1943
Author of books:
Theoretical Nuclear Physics (1952, physics, with John M. Blatt)
Knowledge and Wonder: The Natural World as Man Knows It (1962)
The Privilege of Being a Physicist (1989, essays)
The Joy of Insight: Passions of a Physicist (1991, memoir)
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