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The joy of insight: passions of a physicist by Weisskopf, Victor Frederick, Publication date Topics Weisskopf, Victor Frederick, , Weisskopf, Victor F. (Victor Frederick), , Weisskopf, Victor Frederick, Physicists, Natuurkundigen, Physics, United States Publisher New York: Basic BooksUser Interaction Count: OK. The Joy of Insight: Passions of a Physicist. Hardcover – January 1, by Victor WEISSKOPF (Author) out of 5 stars. 11 ratings. See all /5(11).  · The Joy of Insight: Passions of a Physicist. Victor Weisskopf. Hans Bethe, Reviewer. Cornell University. PDF 0 comments. Prev Next. Physics To Victor F. Weisskopf. more Aug The laws of life. Charles S. Cockell. more Mar Reminiscence of Cited by:

Victor F. Weisskopf Interview around you; you want to know. And I had this from my high school days. I didn't have a very good high school teacher in physics or in natural science, but somehow at that time, I just wanted to know and I read books -- too many, you know -- popular books on science. Of course, there are also teachers who. Find many great new used options and get the best deals for The Joy of Insight: Passions of a Physicist by Victor Weisskopf at the best online prices at eBay! Free shipping for many products! Victor Weisskopf was born in Vienna on Septem. He studied at the University of Vienna and received a doctorate in physics from the University of Gottingen in Germany in In the s and s, Dr. Weisskopf served at several European research institutions at a time regarded as seminal in the development of nuclear physics.

OK. The Joy of Insight: Passions of a Physicist. Hardcover – January 1, by Victor WEISSKOPF (Author) out of 5 stars. 11 ratings. See all formats and editions. Hide other formats and editions. Price. Victor Frederick "Viki" Weisskopf was an Austrian-born American theoretical physicist. He did postdoctoral work with Werner Heisenberg, Erwin Schrödinger, Wolfgang Pauli and Niels Bohr. 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. An autobiography written by nuclear physicist Victor Weisskopf at the request of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. Born and raised near Vienna in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, he studied physics with the leading theorists of quantum physics before the Nazi regime drove them from Europe, after which Weisskopf and many of the others participated in the Manhattan Project in the United States.