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
Max Born
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Max Born was a German–British theoretical physicist who was instrumental in the development of quantum mechanics. He also made contributions to solid-state physics and optics, and supervised the work
Born, 1930s
Solvay Conference, 1927. Born is second from the right in the second row, between Louis de Broglie and Niels Bohr.
Max Born and Hedi Born visiting B.S. Madhava Rao's home in Bangalore, c. October 1935. Standing (l–r): B.S. Venkata Rao, B.S. Madhava Rao (holding son Arun), B.S. Bheema Rao. Seated (l–r): Ms. Fryer, Subhadra Bai, Shakuntala, Max Born, Hedi Born, Leelavathi, Kapila Bai, Ms. Muriel Robinson. Identifications confirmed by Leelavathi (BSM's daughter), 2026.
Born's gravestone in Göttingen is inscribed with the canonical commutation relation, which he put on rigorous mathematical footing.