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Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker
German physicist (1912–2007)
Details
- Instance of
- human
- Born
- 28 June 1912
- Died
- 28 April 2007
- Place of birth
- Kiel
- Place of death
- Söcking
- Sex or gender
- male
- Family name
- Weizsäcker, von Weizsäcker
- Father
- Ernst von Weizsäcker
- Mother
- Marianne von Weizsäcker
- Child
- Carl Christian von Weizsäcker, Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker, Elisabeth Raiser, Heinrich Weizsäcker
- Sibling
- Richard von Weizsäcker
- Field of work
- physics
- Occupation
- physicist, writer, philosopher, university teacher, nuclear physicist, astronomer
- Citizenship
- Kingdom of Württemberg, Germany
- Religion
- Lutheranism
- Awards
- Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts order, Great Cross with Star and Sash of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, Goethe Prize of the City of Frankfurt, Erasmus Prize, Peace Prize of the German Publishers' and Booksellers' Association, Max Planck Medal, Templeton Prize, Sigmund Freud Prize, Ernst Hellmut Vits Award, Honorary doctor of the Technical University of Berlin, honorary doctor of the University of Aberdeen, honorary doctor of the Leipzig University
- birth name
- Carl Friedrich Weizsäcker
- described by source
- Hamburg Biographies, Physicists: Biographical Dictionary, Dresdner Hefte
- doctoral advisor
- Friedrich Hund, Werner Heisenberg
- doctoral student
- Gernot Böhme, Detlef Laugwitz, Karl-Heinz Höcker, Rolf Ebert
- languages spoken, written or signed
- German
- member of
- Saxon Academy of Sciences and Humanities, German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Lower Saxony, German Academy for Language and Literature, American Physical Society, Göttingen Eighteen, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts, Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- name in native language
- Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker
- noble title
- baron
- nominated for
- Nobel Prize in Physics, Nobel Prize in Physics, Nobel Prize in Physics, Nobel Prize in Physics
- place of detention
- Farm Hall
- significant event
- Operation Epsilon, Alsos Mission
- topic's main category
- Category:Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker
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