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Eugene Paul Wigner (Hungarian: Wigner Jenő Pál, pronounced [ˈviɡnɛr ˈjɛnøː ˈpaːl]; November 17, 1902 – January 1, 1995) was a Hungarian-American theoretical physicist who also contributed to mathematical physics.
Apr 16, 2024 · Eugene Wigner was a Hungarian-born American physicist, joint winner, with J. Hans D. Jensen of West Germany and Maria Goeppert Mayer of the United States, of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1963. He received the prize for his many contributions to nuclear physics, which include his formulation of.
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Jan 1, 1995 · Biographical. E ugene Paul Wigner, born in Budapest, Hungary, on November 17, 1902, naturalized a citizen of the United States on January 8, 1937, has been since 1938 Thomas D. Jones Professor of Mathematical Physics at Princeton University – he retired in 1971.
Jan 4, 1995 · Eugene P. Wigner, a physicist who made fundamental advances in nuclear physics and quantum theory and helped usher in the atomic age, died on Sunday at the Medical Center in Princeton, N.J. He...
Eugene Paul Wigner was a Hungarian-American theoretical physicist who also contributed to mathematical physics. He received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1963 "for his contributions to the theory of the atomic nucleus and the elementary particles, particularly through the discovery and application of fundamental symmetry principles".
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Professor of Mathematical Physics, Princeton University. Manhattan Project. Eugene Wigner (1902-1995) joined the Princeton faculty in 1930. In 1936, he developed Princeton’s first atom-smashing cyclotron to study nuclear properties of uranium.
Jan 1, 1995 · Quick Info. Born. 17 November 1902. Budapest, Hungary. Died. 1 January 1995. Princeton, New Jersey, USA. Summary. Eugene Paul Wigner was a Hungarian-American theoretical physicist and mathematician who won a Nobel prize for his contributions to the theory of the atomic nucleus and elementary particles. View four larger pictures. Biography.
