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To give an accurate and exhaustive account of that period would need a far less brilliant pen than mine.
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)