# Martin Weisskopf

> Martin Charles Weisskopf was an American space scientist. Until his retirement from NASA at the end of May 2022, he was a project scientist for their Chandra X-ray Observatory, and Chief Scientist for X-ray Astronomy in the Space Sciences Department at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. He was also the Principal Investigator of the Small Explorer mission the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE).

*American astrophysicist and astronomer*

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## Identity
- **Profile type:** Scientist ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631))
- **Category:** Scientists
- **Country:** United States
- **Born:** 1942-04-21
- **Died:** 2026-05-02
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

Martin Charles Weisskopf was an American space scientist. Until his retirement from NASA at the end of May 2022, he was a project scientist for their Chandra X-ray Observatory, and Chief Scientist for X-ray Astronomy in the Space Sciences Department at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. He was also the Principal Investigator of the Small Explorer mission the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE).

## Fame
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## Sources
- [Martin C. Weisskopf](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_C._Weisskopf)
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- [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2777721)

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