Quote of the day
War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation. It's peace that's wanted. Some better peace than the one you started with.
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)