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As the Red Scare faded, in 1959 Weisskopf joined physicists George Gamow and Hans Bethe in supporting the return of exiled physicist Frank Oppenheimer to science teaching;: 130 a decade later, Oppenheimer would found the innovative Exploratorium museum of science, technology, and arts in San Francisco.
Institute Professor Emeritus Victor F. Weisskopf, a protégé of physicist Niels Bohr who helped develop the atomic bomb and later became an outspoken advocate of arms control, died Sunday night at his home in Newton, Mass. He was 93 years old.
September 19, 1908 – April 22, 2002. Research Interests. Weisskopf–called “Viki” by all who knew him–was noted for his theoretical work in quantum electrodynamics, the structure of the atomic nucleus and elementary particle physics.
Apr 25, 2002 · Victor F Weisskopf, nuclear physicist who worked on Manhattan Project to build first atomic bomb in World War II and later became ardent advocate of arms control, dies at 93; he was one of...
As a member of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences he was instrumental in persuading the Pope to speak on the dangers of nuclear weapons. Weisskopf was born in Vienna, Austria, on September 19, 1908. In his nineties and increasingly frail, he died at home in Newton, Massachusetts, on April 22, 2002.
Apr 27, 2002 · Victor F. Weisskopf, a nuclear physicist who worked on the Manhattan Project and then spent much of the rest of his life warning against nuclear weapons, has died. He was 93.
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Jan 16, 2023 · Oppenheimer died in 1967, at the height of the Cold War, a conflict that nuclear weapons helped mutate into a seemingly endless standoff. Five days after he died, two nuclear weapons nicknamed Persimmon and Agile were detonated in Los Alamos as part of Operation Latchkey, one of the dozens of nuclear tests throughout the Cold War that saw the ...
