Victor Weisskopf
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Victor Frederick "Viki" Weisskopf was an Austrian-born American theoretical physicist and Director-General of CERN from 1961 – 1965.
Weisskopf in the 1940s
Weisskopf's Los Alamos badge
Victor Weisskopf at CERN in 1964
Niels Bohr
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Niels Henrik David Bohr was a Danish theoretical physicist who made foundational contributions to understanding atomic structure and quantum theory, for which he received the Nobel Prize in Physics in
Victor Weisskopf
…in physics at the University of Göttingen in Germany in 1931. He did postdoctoral work with Werner Heisenberg, Erwin Schrödinger, Wolfgang Pauli, and Niels Bohr. Bohr mentored Weisskopf at his institute in Copenhagen. By the late 1930s, he realized that, as a Jew, he needed to get out of Europe. Bohr helped him…
Bohr in 1922
Niels Bohr with his mother, 1902
Bohr as a young man, c. 1910.
The Niels Bohr Institute, part of the University of Copenhagen.