Quote of the day
You're neither unnatural, nor abominable, nor mad; you're as much a part of what people call nature as anyone else; only you're unexplained as yet—you've not got your niche in creation.
Victor Weisskopf
Born: September 19, 1908
Died: April 22, 2002 (aged 93)
Bio: Victor Frederick "Viki" Weisskopf was an Austrian-born American theoretical physicist. He did postdoctoral work with Werner Heisenberg, Erwin Schrödinger, Wolfgang Pauli and Niels Bohr.
Known for:
- Theoretical Nuclear Physics (1952)
- The privilege of being a physicist (1989)
- The joy of insight (1991)