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General of CERN in his increasingly ardous duties. The Directorate will consist of five members, namely the Director-General who is head of the Organization, two Members for research, one Member for administration and a Member for applied physics.
Prof. Victor F. Weisskopf recently accepted an appointment as one of the research members of the Directorate. Prof. Weisskopf was born in Vienna on 10 September 1908. He obtained his doctorate ia physics 23 years later at the University of G6ttingen where he studied under Max Born and James Franck. In 1931 he became assistant to Heisenberg at Leipzig and one year later joined Schr6dinger in Berlin. After a period of some months at Kharkov in USSR, Prof. Weisskopf moved first to Ztirich and then to Copenhagert before taking up an appointment as Professor at the University of Rochester in the United States. He remained at Rochester until I948, spent about two years at Los Alamos, and then went to Massachusetts Institute of Technology in October 19¢5 to teach physics.
Proi Weisskopf was recently granted a leave of absence from M. I. T. and he took up his appointment at CERN on
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