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This collection of essays by scientists from around the world honors Victor Frederick Weisskopf one of the true luminaries of twentieth- century physics. Among the many breakthroughs his research has yielded have been the theory of the widths of energy levels of the electron the Clouded Crystal Ball model of nuclear structure and the MIT Bag model of hadronic matter. For his contributions to physics Dr. Weisskopf has been awarded the Max Planck Medal the J. Robert Oppenheimer Medal and most recently the Karl Taylor Compton Award. The essays in this book by some of the world's leading physicists including seven nobel prize winners address topics ranging from Weisskopf's contributions to theoretical physics to more intimate views of his role as teacher friend and humanist. Contributors include: Hans A. Bethe Hendrick B.G. Casimir Georges Charpak Sidney D. Drell Evgenii L. Feinberg Herman Feshbach Jerome I. Friedman and Henry W. Kendall Murray Gell-Mann Kurt Gottfried J. David Jackson Maurice Jacob Francis E. Low Ove Nathan Norman F. Ramsey Walter Thirring and Charles H. Townes. For all his accomplishments Victor Weisskopf remains a contemplative and unpretentious man. Throughout the world's scientific community he is known simply as Viki. The man and his work are revealed here by the collaborators colleagues and friends who know him best.

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