Eugene Wigner
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".
Background
- Born in
- Budapest
- Educated at
- Technische Universität BerlinFasori Gimnázium
- Awards
- 🏆 Franklin Medal🏆 Richtmyer Memorial Lecture Award🏆 Foreign Member of the Royal Society🏆 Fellow of the American Physical Society🏆 Nobel Prize in Physics
- Doctoral Advisors
- 🎓 Michael Polanyi
- Doctoral Students
- 📖 John Bardeen📖 Victor Weisskopf
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Trending topics shown first"In science, it is not speed that is the most important. It is the dedication, the commitment, the interest and the will to know something and to understand it — these are the things that come first."
"The miracle of the appropriateness of the language of mathematics for the formulation of the laws of physics is a wonderful gift which we neither understand nor deserve."
"A possible explanation of the physicist's use of mathematics to formulate his laws of nature is that he is a somewhat irresponsible person. As a result, when he finds a connection between two quantiti…"
Works & Publications
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Timeline
1902
Born
Birth1995
Died
Death
Family & Connections
- spouse:
- Amelia Frank, Mary Annette Wheeler, Eileen Clare-Patton Hamilton
- children:
- David Wheeler Wigner
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