Obituary: Professor Victor Weisskopf; Atom-bomb and Cern physicist

The Independent - London | April 25, 2002| | Copyright

THE RISE of Nazism brought horror, humiliation, death and torture to so many free-thinking people, to Jews, and to other minorities. There were some lucky ones, like the Weisskopf family, Viennese medical intellectuals, who were able to escape, thanks to organisations such as the University in Exile in New York.

Victor Weisskopf was born and brought up in Austria in the spirit of German culture. He said that he considered his transfer from Europe to the United States as an invaluable source of intellectual enrichment. The family's forced emigration, in which they passed through Denmark, ...

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