  victor frederick "viki" weisskopf (september 19, 1908 â april 22, 2002) was an austrian-born american theoretical physicist. he did postdoctoral work with werner heisenberg, erwin schrÃ¶dinger, wolfgang pauli and niels bohr.http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2002/weisskopf-0424.html obituary of victor weisskopf from the mit news office during world war ii he was group leader of the theoretical division of the manhattan project at los alamos, and later campaigned against the proliferation of nuclear weapons. ==biography== weisskopf was born in vienna to jewish parents and earned his doctorate in physics at the university of gÃ¶ttingen in germany in 1931. his brilliance in physics led to work with the great physicists exploring the atom, especially niels bohr, who 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 find a position in the u.s. in the 1930s and 1940s, 'vik
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