National Academy of Sciences) 2000: Grand Gold Medal with Star for Services to the Republic of Austria Quotes In class one day, speaking to junior physics majors (Spring, 1957): "There is no such thing as a stupid question." Citing initial teacher-student interactions, Noam Chomsky attributes to Victor the educational maxim, Publications References Bibliography External links Annotated bibliography for Victor Weisskopf from the Alsos Digital Library for Nuclear Issues "A Scientist's Odyssey": A Conversation with Victor Weisskopf, April 7, 1988, transcript and RealMedia webcast Oral history interview transcript with Victor Fredrick Weisskopf 10 July 1965, American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library & Archives 1908 births 2002 deaths 20th-century Austrian physicists Austrian nuclear physicists Quantum physicists Manhattan Project people Albert Einstein Medal recipients Enrico Fermi Award recipients Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Wolf Prize in Physics laureates Fellows of the American Physical Society Members of the French Academy of Sciences Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences National Medal of Science laureates Foreign Members of the USSR Academy of Sciences Foreign Members of the Russian Academy of Sciences People associated with CERN American anti–nuclear weapons activists Jewish emigrants from Austria to the United States after the Anschluss University of Göttingen alumni Academic staff of ETH Zurich Jewish American scientists Recipients of the Austrian Decoration for Science and Art Recipients of the Grand Decoration with Star for Services to the Republic of Austria Recipients of the Pour le Mérite (civil class) Scientists from Vienna Winners of the Max Planck Medal Members of the German Academy of Sciences at Berlin MIT Center for Theoretical Physics faculty Members of the American Philosophical Society Presidents of the American Physical Society