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Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker
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Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker

Author · born June 28, 1912 · died 2007

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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.

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  1. ~45Received the Max Planck Medal1957
  2. ~46Received the Goethe Prize of the City of Frankfurt1958
  3. 51Received the Peace Prize of the German Publishers' and Booksellers' AssociationOctober 13, 1963
  4. ~57Received the Erasmus Prize1969
  5. ~77Received the Templeton Prize1989

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