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Weizsäcker, Carl Friedrich von (1912–2007)


Carl von Weizsacker
German physicist and philosopher at the University of Strasbourg who, in 1944, published an important new version of the nebular hypothesis which explained the puzzling discrepancy between the comparatively low angular momentum of the Sun and the high angular momentum of the outer planets. Previously, in 1938, he had put forward, independently of Hans Bethe, the carbon-nitrogen-oxygen cycle as an important energy-making process in stars.


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