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Victor Frederick Weisskopf bol americký fyzik židovského pôvodu narodený vo Viedni. Počas druhej svetovej vojny pracoval v Los Alamos na vývoji atómovej bomby. Neskôr pracoval na Massachusettskom technologickom inštitúte, či v CERNe. Je nositeľom Wolfovej ceny za fyziku za rok 1981. Wikipedia  

✵ 19. september 1908 – 22. apríl 2002
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“It is possible to apply statistical methods to the calculation of nuclear processes provided that the energies involved are large in comparison with the lowest excitation energies of nuclei.”

[V. Weisskopf, Statistics and nuclear reactions, Physical Review, 52, 4, 1937, 295–303, https://journals.aps.org/pr/abstract/10.1103/PhysRev.52.295]

“The question of the origin of the universe is one of the most exciting topics for a scientist to deal with. It reaches far beyond its purely scientific significance, since it is related to human existence, to mythology, and to religion. Furthermore, it deals with questions are connected with the fundamental structure of matter, with elementrary particles.”

[Victor F. Weisskopf, American Scientist, The Origin of the Universe: An introduction to recent theoretical developments that are linking cosmology and particle physics, 71, 5, September-October 1983, 473–480, http://www.jstor.org/stable/27852239]

“… conferences with open attendance are very important for the stimulation of young people or other people who are new in the field. … The field of high-energy physics is, as you know, very strongly in the hands of a clique and it is hard for an outsider to enter.”

Victor Weisskopf to J. Howard McMillen, 14 Mar 1960, also as quoted by [David Kaiser, Drawing theories apart: the dispersion of Feynman diagrams in postwar physics, University of Chicago Press, 2005, 0226422674, 336]

“Self-confidence is an important ingredient that makes for a successful physicist.”

[Victor Weisskopf, Growing up with quantum field theory: The development of quantum electrodynamics. In: The birth of particle physics (ed. L.M. Brown and L. Hoddeson), Cambridge University Press, 1983, 75]