Viktor Erwin Hampel | Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Viktor Erwin Hampel, former LLNL physicist, died Dec. 26. He was 90. Hampel was born in Vilnius, Lithuania to Richard and Edith Hampel. In 1950, at the age of 20, he received a one-year full scholarship to study at the University of Mississippi. In America he found hope and peace and in 1952 immigrated as a refugee. His first job was at Sciaky Bros. in Chicago as a research technician in their development laboratory. In Oak Park, Chicago he met Annelies, who also had recently immigrated from Germany. They were married in 1954 and shortly thereafter he was drafted into the U.S. Army during ...
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