Victor Frederick "Viki" Weisskopf (also spelled Viktor; September 19, 1908 – April 22, 2002) was an Austrian-born American theoretical physicist. He did...
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Goeppert-Mayer, Lothar Wolfgang Nordheim, Robert Oppenheimer, and Victor Weisskopf all received their PhD degrees under Born at Göttingen, and his assistants...
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1947) is an American theoretical physicist and cosmologist who is the Victor Weisskopf Professor of Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology....
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Technology (MIT) and received a letter from Victor Weisskopf urging him to attend MIT and become Weisskopf's research assistant. This would provide Gell-Mann...
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Petersen in a reminiscence after his death. N. David Mermin recalled Victor Weisskopf declaring that Bohr wouldn't have said anything of the sort and exclaiming...
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inevitable cultural conflicts between scientists and the military. Victor Weisskopf wrote: Oppenheimer directed these studies, theoretical and experimental...
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Austrian physicist Anton Lampa. This phenomenon was popularized by Victor Weisskopf in a Physics Today article. Due to an early dispute about priority...
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Klein 1958 Wolfgang Pauli 1957 Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker 1956 Victor Weisskopf 1955 Hans Bethe 1954 Enrico Fermi 1953 Walther Bothe 1952 Paul Dirac...
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supported by endorsements from physicists Hans Bethe, George Gamow, and Victor Weisskopf,: 130 Oppenheimer was offered a position at the University of Colorado...
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structure physics which has yet to be solved. — John Markus Blatt and Victor Weisskopf, Theoretical nuclear physics (1952) Scattering theory Ballistic conduction...
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commander of the Base Camp at Trinity. Scientists William Penney, Victor Weisskopf and Philip Moon were consultants. Eventually seven subgroups were formed:...
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George Uhlenbeck, Jerrold Zacharias, Philip Morrison, Melba Phillips, Victor Weisskopf, Gerald Holton, John A. Wheeler, Frank Oppenheimer, Robert Resnick...
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energy of the electromagnetic field. This view was popularized by Victor Weisskopf who in 1935 wrote: From quantum theory there follows the existence...
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Duscha went on to marry the Austro-American theoretical physicist Victor Weisskopf, and later wrote a book about her father, Willi Schmid: A Life in Germany...
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Weißkopf, Weisskopf, Weiskopf are surnames of the following notable people: Alison Weisskopf (1960–2018), British archaeologist Bob Weiskopf (1914–2001)...
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and helium. Reviewing the article decades later, Robert Bacher and Victor Weisskopf noted that it was unusual in the depth and breadth of its treatment...
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his graduate thesis advisor, MIT physics professor David Frisch. Weisskopf, Victor; Low, Francis; Osborne, Louis (July 1992). "Obituary: David H. Frisch"...
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QED framework was first calculated by Victor Weisskopf and Eugene Wigner in 1930 in a landmark paper. The Weisskopf-Wigner calculation remains the standard...
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His papers and notebooks are today in the University of Chicago. Victor Weisskopf noted how Fermi "always managed to find the simplest and most direct...
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Henry DeWolf Smyth (1957) Jesse Beams (1958) George Uhlenbeck (1959) Victor Weisskopf (1960) Frederick Seitz (1961) William V. Houston (1962) John Harry...
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2008). "Concepts of Symmetry in the Work of Wolfgang Pauli" (PDF). Weisskopf, Victor F. (December 1, 1985). "Personal Memories of Pauli". Physics Today...
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Isidor Isaac Rabi, Dorothy McKibbin, Robert Oppenheimer and Victor Weisskopf at Oppenheimer's home in Los Alamos in 1944...
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However, further studies by Felix Bloch with Arnold Nordsieck, and Victor Weisskopf, in 1937 and 1939, revealed that such computations were reliable only...
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Henry DeWolf Smyth (1957) Jesse Beams (1958) George Uhlenbeck (1959) Victor Weisskopf (1960) Frederick Seitz (1961) William V. Houston (1962) John Harry...
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Henry DeWolf Smyth (1957) Jesse Beams (1958) George Uhlenbeck (1959) Victor Weisskopf (1960) Frederick Seitz (1961) William V. Houston (1962) John Harry...
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Henry DeWolf Smyth (1957) Jesse Beams (1958) George Uhlenbeck (1959) Victor Weisskopf (1960) Frederick Seitz (1961) William V. Houston (1962) John Harry...
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1987: Jeanne Hersch 1986: Rudolf Mössbauer 1985: Edward Witten 1984: Victor Weisskopf 1983: Hermann Bondi 1982: Friedrich Traugott Wahlen 1979: Stephen Hawking...
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Claremont College. OCLC 1071412. Rabi, Isidor Isaac; Serber, Robert; Weisskopf, Victor F.; Pais, Abraham; Seaborg, Glenn T. (1969). Oppenheimer: The Story...
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Henry DeWolf Smyth (1957) Jesse Beams (1958) George Uhlenbeck (1959) Victor Weisskopf (1960) Frederick Seitz (1961) William V. Houston (1962) John Harry...
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: 28 Subsequently, Norman Myles Kroll, Lamb, James Bruce French, and Victor Weisskopf again confirmed this value using an approach in which infinities cancelled...
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