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.