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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

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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