Victor Weisskopf (1908–2002), Nuclear Physicist.

Victor Frederick Weisskopf was a nuclear physicist born in Vienna, Austria-Hungary, to Jewish parents. He earned his doctorate at the University of Göttingen, Germany in 1931 and did post-doc work with Werner Heisenberg, Wolfgang Pauli, Niels Bohr, and Erwin Schrödinger. Weisskopf served as Professor of Physics at the University of Rochester and during WWII was the Group Leader of the Theoretical Division of the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos. He later spoke out against the proliferation of nuclear weapons. After WWII Weisskopf joined the faculty of MIT. He made major contributions to quantum theory (particularly in the area of quantum electrodynamics).