1908 - 2002
Victor Frederick "Viki" Weisskopf (also spelled Viktor; September 19, 1908 – April 22, 2002) was an Austrian-born American theoretical physicist. He did postdoctoral work with Werner Heisenberg, Erwin Schrödinger, Wolfgang Pauli, and Niels Bohr. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Victor Weisskopf has received more than 163,850 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). Victor Weisskopf is the 389th most popular physicist (down from 384th in 2019), the 477th most popular biography from Austria (down from 422nd in 2019) and the 10th most popular Austrian Physicist.
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Among physicists, Victor Weisskopf ranks 389 out of 721. Before him are Nick Holonyak, G. M. B. Dobson, Auguste Bravais, Robert J. Van de Graaff, Heinrich Barkhausen, and Robert B. Laughlin. After him are Hendrik Casimir, Gaspard de Prony, Lyman Spitzer, Christian Bohr, Jean Léonard Marie Poiseuille, and Ányos Jedlik.
1928 - Present
HPI: 65.01
Rank: 383
1889 - 1975
HPI: 65.00
Rank: 384
1811 - 1863
HPI: 64.98
Rank: 385
1901 - 1967
HPI: 64.95
Rank: 386
1881 - 1956
HPI: 64.92
Rank: 387
1950 - Present
HPI: 64.90
Rank: 388
1908 - 2002
HPI: 64.86
Rank: 389
1909 - 2000
HPI: 64.81
Rank: 390
1755 - 1839
HPI: 64.80
Rank: 391
1914 - 1997
HPI: 64.79
Rank: 392
1855 - 1911
HPI: 64.76
Rank: 393
1797 - 1869
HPI: 64.74
Rank: 394
1800 - 1895
HPI: 64.74
Rank: 395
Among people born in 1908, Victor Weisskopf ranks 108. Before him are Jean Delannoy, João Guimarães Rosa, Fyodor Okhlopkov, Lionel Hampton, Carlo Abarth, and Arturo Frondizi. After him are Teizo Takeuchi, Robert Rossen, Baby Face Nelson, Harold Holt, Lupe Vélez, and Jacques Massu. Among people deceased in 2002, Victor Weisskopf ranks 92. Before him are Ruth Handler, Agatha Barbara, Nguyễn Văn Thuận, Spyros Kyprianou, Uziel Gal, and Karel Reisz. After him are Michail Stasinopoulos, Joseph Bonanno, Thomas Gordon, Waylon Jennings, Jacques Massu, and Eugenio Coșeriu.
1908 - 2008
HPI: 65.40
Rank: 102
1908 - 1967
HPI: 65.35
Rank: 103
1908 - 1968
HPI: 65.34
Rank: 104
1908 - 2002
HPI: 65.32
Rank: 105
1908 - 1979
HPI: 65.26
Rank: 106
1908 - 1995
HPI: 65.22
Rank: 107
1908 - 2002
HPI: 64.86
Rank: 108
1908 - 1946
HPI: 64.83
Rank: 109
1908 - 1966
HPI: 64.81
Rank: 110
1908 - 1934
HPI: 64.80
Rank: 111
1908 - 1967
HPI: 64.74
Rank: 112
1908 - 1944
HPI: 64.54
Rank: 113
1908 - 2002
HPI: 64.52
Rank: 114
1916 - 2002
HPI: 65.25
Rank: 86
1923 - 2002
HPI: 65.18
Rank: 87
1928 - 2002
HPI: 65.18
Rank: 88
1932 - 2002
HPI: 65.00
Rank: 89
1923 - 2002
HPI: 64.96
Rank: 90
1926 - 2002
HPI: 64.91
Rank: 91
1908 - 2002
HPI: 64.86
Rank: 92
1903 - 2002
HPI: 64.70
Rank: 93
1905 - 2002
HPI: 64.68
Rank: 94
1918 - 2002
HPI: 64.62
Rank: 95
1937 - 2002
HPI: 64.59
Rank: 96
1908 - 2002
HPI: 64.52
Rank: 97
1921 - 2002
HPI: 64.45
Rank: 98
Among people born in Austria, Victor Weisskopf ranks 477 out of 1,075. Before him are Archduke Ferdinand Karl of Austria (1868), Erich Fried (1921), Karl Schäfer (1909), Paul Neumann (1875), Johann Nestroy (1801), and Ernst Marischka (1893). After him are Josef Frank (1885), Hieronymus von Colloredo (1732), Georg Rafael Donner (1693), Infanta Blanca of Spain (1868), Wolfgang Schüssel (1945), and Martin Weinek (1964).
1868 - 1915
HPI: 64.97
Rank: 471
1921 - 1988
HPI: 64.94
Rank: 472
1909 - 1976
HPI: 64.94
Rank: 473
1875 - 1932
HPI: 64.90
Rank: 474
1801 - 1862
HPI: 64.88
Rank: 475
1893 - 1963
HPI: 64.87
Rank: 476
1908 - 2002
HPI: 64.86
Rank: 477
1885 - 1967
HPI: 64.85
Rank: 478
1732 - 1812
HPI: 64.84
Rank: 479
1693 - 1741
HPI: 64.84
Rank: 480
1868 - 1949
HPI: 64.83
Rank: 481
1945 - Present
HPI: 64.80
Rank: 482
1964 - Present
HPI: 64.79
Rank: 483
Among physicists born in Austria, Victor Weisskopf ranks 10. Before him are Ludwig Boltzmann (1844), Christian Doppler (1803), Victor Francis Hess (1883), Fritjof Capra (1939), Otto Robert Frisch (1904), and Walter Kohn (1923). After him are Marian Smoluchowski (1872), Marietta Blau (1894), Anton Zeilinger (1945), Berta Karlik (1904), Julius Wess (1934), and Peter Zoller (1952).
1844 - 1906
HPI: 79.04
Rank: 4
1803 - 1853
HPI: 78.68
Rank: 5
1883 - 1964
HPI: 76.21
Rank: 6
1939 - Present
HPI: 69.92
Rank: 7
1904 - 1979
HPI: 68.73
Rank: 8
1923 - 2016
HPI: 68.14
Rank: 9
1908 - 2002
HPI: 64.86
Rank: 10
1872 - 1917
HPI: 63.76
Rank: 11
1894 - 1970
HPI: 62.36
Rank: 12
1945 - Present
HPI: 62.30
Rank: 13
1904 - 1990
HPI: 61.50
Rank: 14
1934 - 2007
HPI: 57.85
Rank: 15
1952 - Present
HPI: 55.19
Rank: 16