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The President's National Medal of Science: Recipient Details

VICTOR F. WEISSKOPF

Title: Professor and Chairman, Department of Physics
Affiliation:   Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139 USA
Gender:   Male
Year Deceased:   2002
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Award Discipline:   Physical Sciences
Award Year:   1979
Citation:   "For important contributions to our understanding of nuclear matter and nuclear reactions, and early fundamental contributions to our understanding of elementary particles."
    Presented by President Carter at a White House Ceremony on January 14, 1980.

 

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