| gptkbp:instanceOf | gptkb:person gptkb:physicist
 
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                                | gptkbp:almaMater | gptkb:University_of_Göttingen gptkb:University_of_Vienna
 
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                                | gptkbp:awardReceived | gptkb:Enrico_Fermi_Award gptkb:J._Robert_Oppenheimer_Memorial_Prize
 gptkb:Max_Planck_Medal
 gptkb:National_Medal_of_Science
 gptkb:Oersted_Medal
 gptkb:Pour_le_Mérite_for_Sciences_and_Arts
 gptkb:Public_Welfare_Medal
 gptkb:Wolf_Prize_in_Physics
 
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                                | gptkbp:birthDate | 1908-09-19 
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                                | gptkbp:birthPlace | gptkb:Vienna 
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                                | gptkbp:citizenship | gptkb:Austria gptkb:United_States
 
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                                | gptkbp:deathDate | 2002-04-22 
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                                | gptkbp:deathPlace | gptkb:Newton,_Massachusetts,_United_States 
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                                | gptkbp:director | gptkb:CERN 
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                                | gptkbp:doctoralAdvisor | gptkb:Max_Born gptkb:Werner_Heisenberg
 
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                                | gptkbp:employer | gptkb:CERN gptkb:Massachusetts_Institute_of_Technology
 gptkb:Niels_Bohr_Institute
 gptkb:University_of_Copenhagen
 gptkb:University_of_Göttingen
 gptkb:University_of_Rochester
 gptkb:University_of_Zurich
 
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                                | gptkbp:field | nuclear physics physics
 quantum mechanics
 
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                                | gptkbp:influenced | gptkb:Jerome_I._Friedman gptkb:John_Archibald_Wheeler
 
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                                | gptkbp:influencedBy | gptkb:Max_Born gptkb:Niels_Bohr
 gptkb:Werner_Heisenberg
 gptkb:Wolfgang_Pauli
 
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                                | gptkbp:knownFor | gptkb:Weisskopf–Wigner_theory gptkb:nuclear_shell_model
 quantum electrodynamics
 work on Manhattan Project
 
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                                | gptkbp:memberOf | gptkb:American_Academy_of_Arts_and_Sciences gptkb:American_Philosophical_Society
 gptkb:Austrian_Academy_of_Sciences
 gptkb:National_Academy_of_Sciences
 gptkb:Pontifical_Academy_of_Sciences
 gptkb:Royal_Society
 
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                                | gptkbp:nationality | gptkb:American gptkb:Austrian
 
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                                | gptkbp:notableStudent | gptkb:Jerome_I._Friedman gptkb:John_Archibald_Wheeler
 
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                                | gptkbp:participatedIn | gptkb:Manhattan_Project 
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                                | gptkbp:president | gptkb:American_Physical_Society 
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                                | gptkbp:religion | gptkb:Judaism 
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                                | gptkbp:residence | gptkb:Austria gptkb:Denmark
 gptkb:Switzerland
 gptkb:United_States
 
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                                | gptkbp:spouse | gptkb:Ellen_Tvede 
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                                | gptkbp:bfsParent | gptkb:John_M._Blatt 
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                                | gptkbp:bfsLayer | 5 
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                                | https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label | Victor F. Weisskopf 
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