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thesis in the spring of 1931 he went to Leipzig to work under Werner Heisenberg and then in the spring term of 1932 under Erwin Schrödinger in Berlin. His first important paper, written with Eugene Wigner, was on the quantum theory of the breadth of spectral lines. In 1928, upon the recommendation of Hans Thirring, professor of theoretical physics in Vienna, he moved at age 20 to Göttingen to continue his studies under Max Born. He showed an early interest and ability in science. In his teens he attended a gymnasium and for two years the University of Vienna. Happy and carefree childhood despite the Great War.
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Growing up in Vienna in a well-to-do Jewish family, he had a In his nineties and increasingly frail, he died at home in Newton, Massachusetts, on April 22, 2002. Weisskopf was born in Vienna, Austria, on September 19, 1908. In 1981 he shared the Wolf Prize for physics with Freeman Dyson and Gerhard ‘t Hooft for “development and application of the quantum theory of fields.” In 1991 he was awarded the Public Welfare Medal of the National Academy of Sciences “for a half-century of unflagging effort to humanize the goals of science, acquaint the world with the beneficial potential of nuclear technologies, and to safeguard it from the devastation of nuclear war.” As a member of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences he was instrumental in persuading the Pope to speak on the dangers of nuclear weapons. In the broader arena through his writings and actions he was an effective advocate for international cooperation in science and human affairs. V ICTOR FREDERICK WEISSKOPF was a major figure in the golden age of quantum mechanics, who made seminal contributions to the quantum theory of radiative transitions, the self-energy of the electron, the electrodynamic properties of the vacuum, and to the theory of nuclear reactions. VICTOR FREDERICK WEISSKOPF September 19, 1908–April 22, 2002