“some of the ideas that had seemed so crazy suddenly made much more sense. That was a great help for me.”
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Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker
Carl Friedrich Freiherr von Weizsäcker was a German physicist and philosopher. He was the longest-living member of the team which performed nuclear research in Nazi Germany during the Second World War, under Werner Heisenberg's leadership. There is ongoing debate as to whether or not he and the other members of the team actively and willingly pursued the development of a nuclear bomb for Germany d…
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Born 28 June 1912 · Died 28 April 2007 · Q65350
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2022· 1 entry
EurekAlert!: German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina and the Stifterverband honor marine researcher Antje Boetius with the Carl-Friedrich-von-Weizsäcker-Prize 2022
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2007· 3 entries
Died 2007-04-28.
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Weizsäcker died at the age of 94 in Söcking near Starnberg
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“Classical physics has been superseded by quantum theory: quantum theory is verified by experiments. Experiments must be described in terms of classical physics.”
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1989· 2 entries
Awarded Templeton Prize (1989).
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Awarded Theodor Heuss Award (1989).
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1988· 1 entry
Awarded Sigmund Freud Prize (1988).
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1987· 1 entry
Awarded Messenger Lectures (1987).
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1983· 1 entry
Awarded Heinrich Heine Prize (1983).
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1980· 2 entries
Awarded Ernst Hellmut Vits Award (1980).
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Became a Christian pacifist, and intensified his work on the conceptual definition of quantum physics, particularly on the Copenhagen interpretation
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1973· 1 entry
Awarded Great Cross with Star and Sash of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (1973).
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1970· 2 entries
Awarded Austrian Decoration for Science and Art (1970).
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Formulated a "Weltinnenpolitik" (world internal policy)
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1969· 1 entry
Awarded Erasmus Prize (1969).
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1963· 1 entry
Awarded Peace Prize of the German Publishers' and Booksellers' Association (1963).
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1958· 1 entry
Awarded Goethe Prize of the City of Frankfurt (1958).
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1957· 2 entries
Won Max Planck Medal (1957).
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Was one of the Göttinger 18, a group of prominent German physicists who protested against the idea that the Bundeswehr (West German armed forces) should be equipped with tactical nuclear weapons
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1952· 1 entry
Became the first director of the IFT (Institute of Theoretical Physics) in São Paulo which would later become part of UNESP
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1946· 1 entry
And became director of a department for theoretical physics in the Max Planck Institute for Physics in Göttingen
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1945· 1 entry
“I believe the reason we didn”
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1941· 1 entry
Was Germany's emergence as the world's first nuclear power
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1938· 1 entry
Weizsäcker developed a theory on the formation of the Solar System, based on considerations regarding the unequal share of lighter and heavier elements in the Sun and the Solar System's terrestrial planets
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1912· 1 entry
Born 1912-06-28.
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1897· 1 entry
And raised to the hereditary nobility with the title of Baron (Freiherr) in 1916
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