!!!Weisskopf, Victor Frederik

b. Vienna, Sept. 19, 1908, nuclear physicist. 1937-1943 at the 
University of Rochester, later worked for the American nuclear bomb 
project at Los Alamos. 1961-1965 Director of the European Organisation 
for Nuclear Research (CERN, Centre europeen de recherches nucleaires); 
later professor at the Massachusetts Institute for Technology (USA). 
In 1937 introduced the idea of using temperature to help describe 
nuclear motions and developed an optical model for nuclear reactors. 
His principle work, "Theoretical Nuclear Physics" (1952, with John M. 
Blatt; German edition "Theoretische Kernphysik", 1959) is still a 
standard textbook. Awarded the Austrian Decoration for Science and Art 
in 1982.

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Other works: Introduction to Field Theory, 1958; Physics and Our 
World, 1976; The Joy of Insight, 1991.

!Literature
A. de Shalit (ed.), Preludes in Theoretical Physics, 1966; 
V. Stefan, Physics and Society, 1998.


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