Victor Weisskopf

Victor Weisskopf
Victor Weisskopf
	Weisskopf in the 1940s
Born	September 19, 1908; Vienna, Austria-Hungary
Died	April 22, 2002 (aged 93); Newton, Massachusetts, U.S.
Alma mater	University of Göttingen
Awards	Max Planck Medal (1956); Oersted Medal (1976); National Medal of Science (1980); Wolf Prize (1981); Enrico Fermi Award (1988); Public Welfare Medal (1991);
	Scientific career
Fields	Physics
Institutions	University of Leipzig; University of Berlin; ETH Zurich; Niels Bohr Institute; University of Rochester; Manhattan Project; MIT; CERN;
Thesis	Zur Theorie der Resonanzfluoreszenz (1931)
Doctoral advisor	Max Born
Doctoral students	J. Bruce French; David H. Frisch; Kerson Huang; J. David Jackson; Arthur Kerman; Murray Gell-Mann; Kurt Gottfried; Raymond Stora; Lawrence Biedenharn; George Yevick;

Victor Frederick "Viki" Weisskopf (also spelled Viktor; September 19, 1908 – April 22, 2002) was an Austrian-born American theoretical physicist and Director-General of CERN from 1961 – 1965.