1. Eugene Wigner - Biography reappointed to this committee in 1959 and served on it until 1964. FromNobel Lectures, Physics 19631970. eugene wigner died in 1995. http://www.nobel.se/physics/laureates/1963/wigner-bio.html

Eugene 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. His formal education was acquired in Europe; he obtained the Dr. Ing. degree at the Technische Hochschule Berlin . Married in 1941 to Mary Annette Wheeler, he is the father of two children, David and Martha. His son, David, is teaching mathematics at the University of California in Berkeley. His daughter, Martha, is with the Chicago area transportation system, an organization endeavoring to improve the internal transportation system of that city. Dr.Wigner worked on the Manhattan Project at the University of Chicago during World War II, from 1942 to 1945, and in 1946-1947 became Director of Research and Development at Clinton Laboratories. Official recognition of his work in nuclear research includes the U. S. Medal for Merit, presented in 1946; the Enrico Fermi Prize (U.S.A.E.C.) awarded in 1958; and the Atoms for Peace Award, in 1960. Dr. Wigner holds the Medal of the Franklin Society, the Max Planck Medal of the German Physical Society, the George Washington Award of the American-Hungarian Studies Foundation (1964), the Semmelweiss Medal of the American-Hungarian Medical Association (1965), and the National Medal of Science (1969). He has received honorary degrees from the

2. Physics 1963 The nobel Prize in Physics 1963. eugene Paul wigner, Maria GoeppertMayer, J.Hans D. Jensen. 1/2 of the prize, 1/4 of the prize, 1/4 of the prize. http://www.nobel.se/physics/laureates/1963/

The Nobel Prize in Physics 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" "for their discoveries concerning nuclear shell structure" Eugene Paul Wigner Maria Goeppert-Mayer J. Hans D. Jensen 1/2 of the prize 1/4 of the prize 1/4 of the prize USA USA Federal Republic of Germany Princeton University Princeton, NJ, USA University of California La Jolla, CA, USA University of Heidelberg Heidelberg, Federal Republic of Germany b. 1902 (in Budapest, Hungary) d. 1995 b. 1906 (in Kattowitz, then Germany) d. 1972 b. 1907 d. 1973 The Nobel Prize in Physics 1963 Presentation Speech Eugene Wigner Biography ... Nobel Lecture The 1963 Prize in: Physics Chemistry Physiology or Medicine Literature ... Peace Find a Laureate: Last modified June 16, 2000 The Official Web Site of The Nobel Foundation

3. Eugene P. Wigner Winner Of The 1963 Nobel Prize In Physics eugene P. wigner, a nobel Prize Laureate in Physics, at the nobelPrize Internet Archive. eugene P. wigner. 1963 nobel Laureate in http://almaz.com/nobel/physics/1963a.html

E UGENE P W IGNER 1963 Nobel Laureate in Physics 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 Place of Birth: Budapest, Hungary Residence: U.S.A. Affiliation: Princeton University, Princeton, NJ Featured Internet Links Search WWW Search The Nobel Prize Internet Archive Nobel News Links Obituary An award from Rev. Sun Myung Moon Links added by Nobel Internet Archive visitors Nobel Prize Winners and Famous Hungarians (submitted by hipcat Eugene Wigner – Biography (submitted by Chinnappan Baskar Back to The Nobel Prize Internet Archive Literature Peace ... Medicine We always welcome your feedback and comments

4. Index Of Nobel Laureates In Physics Wien, Wilhelm, 1911. wigner, eugene P. 1963. Back to The nobel Prize InternetArchive Literature * Peace * Chemistry * Physics * Economics * Medicine http://almaz.com/nobel/physics/alpha.html

ALPHABETICAL LISTING OF NOBEL PRIZE LAUREATES IN PHYSICS Name Year Awarded Alferov, Zhores I. Alfven, Hannes Alvarez, Luis W. Anderson, Carl David ... Medicine We always welcome your feedback and comments

5. Wigner The Hungarian version of eugene Paul wigner's name was Jenó Pál wigner. wignerreceived the nobel Prize for Physics in 1963. http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Wigner.html

Eugene Paul Wigner Born: 17 Nov 1902 in Budapest, Hungary Died: 1 Jan 1995 in Princeton, New Jersey, USA Click the picture above to see three larger pictures Show birthplace location Previous (Chronologically) Next Biographies Index Previous (Alphabetically) Next Main index The Hungarian version of Eugene Paul Wigner From the time he was five years old Wigner was given private tuition at home. When he was ten years old he entered an elementary school but about a year after he began his studies at the school he was told that he had tuberculosis. The cure was to be found in sending him to a sanatorium in Breitenstein in Austria and he spent six weeks there before being told that the diagnosis had been wrong and that he had never had tuberculosis. However, one advantage of his six weeks was that he began to think about mathematical problems [13]:- I had to lie on a deck chair for days on end, and I worked terribly hard on constructing a triangle if the three altitudes are given. In 1915 Wigner entered the Lutheran High School in Budapest. Here he met John von Neumann who was in the class below him. However he wrote [8]:-

6. The Hungary Page- Eugene Wigner: Nobel Laureate, Father Of Nuclear Engineering a message! eugene wigner (1902 1995) Received nobel Prize in 1963for research on structure of atom its nucleus. Responsible http://www.hungary.org/users/hipcat/wigner.htm

Eugene Wigner Co-developed the atomic bomb and is known as the Father of Nuclear Engineering See Wigner Bio at the History of Mathematics Archive at the University of St. Andrews or See Wigner Bio at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. If you have additional photos or more biographical information on these or other famous Hungarians, please contribute!

7. Wigner, Eugene Paul (1902-1995) -- From Eric Weisstein's World Of Scientific Bio wigner shared the 1963 nobel Prize in Physics with Maria Goeppert Mayer and HansJensen. Szanton, A. The Recollections of eugene P. wigner as Told to Andrew http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/biography/Wigner.html

Branch of Science Physicists Nationality American ... Physics Prize Wigner, Eugene Paul (1902-1995) Hungarian-American physicist who studied in Berlin before moving to Princeton in 1930, where he later became professor of theoretical physics. His main contribution was in applying group theory to quantum mechanics He was among those urging the U.S. to build an atomic bomb, and he made some important contributions to the Manhattan Project. In 1927, Wigner concluded that parity is conserved in a nuclear reaction. In other words, the laws of physics should not distinguish between right and left; or between positive and negative time. This held as a central tenet of physics until 1958, when Yang and Lee showed that certain types of reaction involving the weak force such as beta decay do not conserve parity. Wigner also investigated the strong nuclear interaction which binds neutrons and protons in the nucleus and showed that it only acted over short distances. He gave his name to the "Wigner's friend paradox," a variant on the paradox. The "friend" is a human observer who replaces the cat in one of the thought experiments on quantum reality. He suggested that the entry of information about the quantum system collapses the quantum wave and reduces the hybrid state (where the "cat" is both alive and dead) to a simple cut-and-dried system.

8. Auditorium At ORNL Renamed To Honor Eugene P. Wigner 11, 1996 Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Central Auditorium has been renamed theEugene P. wigner Auditorium to pay tribute to the late nobel Prizewinning http://www.ornl.gov/Press_Releases/archive/mr19960111-01.html

MEDIA CONTACT: Ron Walli Auditorium at ORNL renamed to honor Eugene P. Wigner OAK RIDGE, Tenn., Jan. 11, 1996 Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Central Auditorium has been renamed the Eugene P. Wigner Auditorium to pay tribute to the late Nobel Prize-winning physicist and mathematician who spent part of his career in Oak Ridge. Wigner, who died Jan. 1, 1995, came to Oak Ridge in 1946 as director of research of Clinton Laboratories. While at Clinton Laboratories, which became ORNL, Wigner played a major role in the design of the graphite reactor. Even before the war ended, he envisioned a greatly enlarged laboratory dedicated to developing a new energy source. Wigner won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1963 for his work in the fundamental mathematics and physics of quantum mechanics. The prize recognized research Wigner, a native of Hungary, had done in the late 1920s while at the Techische Hochschule in Berlin. Wigner, who emigrated to the United States in 1930, applied and extended the mathematical theory of groups to the quantum world of the atom, using group theory to organize the quantum energy levels of electrons in atoms. This method is now standard. With his mathematical approach to the atom, Wigner became one of the first to grasp the implications of symmetry, which has since emerged as one of the key principles of theoretical physics.

9. Kormányzati Portál wigner JENO eugene P. wigner (1902. november 17., Budapest - 1995. január 1.,Princeton) A fizikai nobel-díjat 1963-ban kapta az atommagok és az elemi http://www.ekormanyzat.hu/orszaginfo?kateg=orszaginfo:1116

10. Government Portal wigner JENO eugene P. wigner (Budapest, 17th November 1902.- Princeton, 1stJanuary, 1995.) He received the nobel-Prize in Physics in 1963 for his http://www.ekormanyzat.hu/english?kateg=english:1261

11. 0103wigner.html 3600 FAX 609/2581301 Release January 3, 1995 Contact Jacquelyn Savani (609/258-5729)eugene P. wigner PRINCETON, NJ eugene P. wigner, nobel Prize-winning http://www.princeton.edu/pr/news/95/q1/0103wigner.html

News from PRINCETON UNIVERSITY Communications and Publications Stanhope Hall Princeton, New Jersey 08544-5264 TEL 609/258-3600 FAX 609/258-1301 Release: January 3, 1995 Contact: Jacquelyn Savani (609/258-5729) Eugene P. Wigner PRINCETON, N.J. Eugene P. Wigner, Nobel Prize-winning Princeton University professor of mathematical physics emeritus and leader in the effort to unleash the power of the atom, died January 1, 1995, of pneumonia at the Medical Center of Princeton, N.J. He was 92 years old. Wigner's great contribution to science, for which he won the Noble Prize in Physics in 1963, was his insight into the fundamental mathematics and physics of quantum mechanics. He applied and extended the mathematical theory of groups to the quantum world of the atom; specifically, he used group theory to organize the quantum energy levels of electrons in atoms in a way that is now standard. With that mathematical approach to the atom, Wigner became one of the first to apprehend the deep implications of symmetry, which has since emerged as one, if not the, key

12. Princeton - Nobel Prize Winners See the nobel Foundation for information about the award and the foundation. 1963 eugene P wigner, Jones Professor of Mathematical Physics, http://www.princeton.edu/pr/facts/nobels.html

Office of Communications Princeton University 22 Chambers Street, Suite 201 Princeton, New Jersey 08542 USA Tel 609/258-3601; Fax 609/258-1301 Princeton Facts Feedback Nobel Prize winners See the Nobel Foundation for information about the award and the foundation. Category Faculty and Staff Alumni Chemistry - Richard Smalley, Ph.D. *74 - Edwin M. McMillan, Ph.D. *33 (physics) Economics - Daniel Kahneman, the Eugene Higgins Professor of Psychology and professor of public affairs - A. Michael Spence, Class of '66 - John F. Nash, Ph.D. *50, senior research mathematician - James J. Heckman, M.A., *68, Ph.D., *71 - Sir W. Arthur Lewis, the James Madison Professor of Political Economy - Gary S. Becker, Class of '51 Literature - Toni Morrison, the Robert F. Goheen Professor in the Humanities - Eugene O'Neill, Class of '10 Peace - Woodrow Wilson 1879, member of the faculty and president of the university Physics - Daniel C. Tsui, the Arthur Legrand Doty Professor of Electrical Engineering

13. Nobel Prizes he was a research physicist, and in 1972 shared his second nobel physics prize hewrote his dissertation under the guidance of Professor eugene P. wigner. http://etc.princeton.edu/CampusWWW/Companion/nobel_prizes.html

Nobel Prizes Nobel Prizes have been awarded to seven Princeton graduates and two faculty members. Woodrow Wilson, of the Class of 1879, 28th president of the United States won the Nobel peace prize for 1919. Arthur H. Compton, B.S. College of Wooster, 1913, Ph.D. (physics) Princeton 1916, shared the physics award in 1927, while professor of physics at the University of Chicago, for his discovery of the change in wave length of scattered X-rays the Compton effect. Clinton J. Davisson, B.S. University of Chicago 1908, Ph.D. (physics) Princeton 1911, shared the physics award in 1937, while a research physicist at the Bell Telephone Laboratories for his part in the diffraction of electrons by crystals, which furnished the first experimental proof that the electron, previously conceived of as a material particle, could also manifest itself as a wave. At Princeton he prepared his dissertation under the direction of Professor O. W. Richardson. Edwin M. McMillan, B.S. California Institute of Technology 1928, Ph.D. (physics), Princeton 1932, shared the 1951 prize in chemistry, while professor of physics at the University of California, Berkeley, for his part in the discovery of transuranium elements. John Bardeers, B.S. University of Wisconsin 1928, Ph.D. (mathematical physics) Princeton 1936, shared the physics award in 1956 for his part in the invention and development of the transistor at the Bell Telephone Laboratories, where he was a research physicist, and in 1972 shared his second Nobel physics prize for his work in superconductivity while professor of physics and electrical engineering at the University of Illinois. At Princeton he wrote his dissertation under the guidance of Professor Eugene P. Wigner.

14. Physics, The Department Of. under him and his successors is evidenced by the nobel laureates who Davisson, EdwinM. McMillan, John Bardeen, Robert Hofstadter, eugene P. wigner, Richard P http://etc.princeton.edu/CampusWWW/Companion/physics_department.html

Physics, The Department of. Physics, The Department of. Was it good advice or inspiration that prompted the trustees of the College of New Jersey to appoint Joseph Henry to the Professorship of Natural Philosophy in 1832? Whichever it was, they appointed the greatest, perhaps the only, American research physicist of his time. Henry was the only American whose name was adopted for one of the principal international electrical units. Moreover, he was a great teacher, first exemplifying in physics the Princeton ideal of the teacher-scholar . After Henry's departure in 1848 to become the first head of the Smithsonian Institution, physics at Princeton had an arid period until the appointment of Cyrus Fogg Brackett in 1873 and of William Francis Magie in 1882. Both men brought distinction to the teaching of physics and prepared the way for the transition into a great department. In the 1890s they, with Henry B. Fine, concluded that both mathematics and physics had to be strengthened if Princeton was to become a real university. Consequently, they began, under Woodrow Wilson, to build up both departments by appointing promising young men. In 1905 and 1906, the trustees brought to Princeton two brilliant young Englishmen, James H. Jeans in applied mathematics and Owen W. Richardson in physics. At that time there was no Palmer Laboratory and physics lectures were given in the old John C. Green School of Science. Richardson described the research facilities he found there in a letter written nearly fifty years later:

15. University Of Chicago News: Nobel Laureates The nobel Prize in Physics 1963 with J. Hans D. Jensen and eugene P. wigner“for their discoveries concerning nuclear shell structure.”. http://www-news.uchicago.edu/resources/nobel/physics.html

University of Chicago News: Resources University of Chicago Physics Nobel Laureates Seventy-four Laureates have been faculty members, students or researchers at the University of Chicago. Twenty-five of those Laureates won prizes in Physics. Masatoshi Koshiba Research Associate in the Enrico Fermi Institute The Nobel Prize in Physics 2002 with Raymond Davis Jr. and Riccardo Giacconi Daniel C. Tsui S.M., 1963; Ph.D., 1967. The Nobel Prize in Physics 1998 Jerome I. Friedman A.B., 1950; S.M., 1953; Ph.D., 1956. The Nobel Prize in Physics 1990 with Henry Kendall and Richard Taylor Jack Steinberger S.B., 1942; Ph.D., 1949. The Nobel Prize in Physics 1988 with Leon Lederman and Dr. Melvin Schwartz Leon M. Lederman Frank L. Sulzberger Professor in the College The Nobel Prize in Physics 1988 with Dr. Jack Steinberger and Dr. Melvin Schwartz Subramanyan Chandrasekhar Research Associate in the , 1937-1938; Assistant Professor, 1938-1942; Associate Professor, 1942-1943; Professor, 1943-1952; Morton D. Hull Distinguished Service Professor in the Physics , and the Enrico Fermi Institute The Nobel Prize in Physics 1983 with William Fowler James W. Cronin

16. Jewish Nobel Prize Laureates - Physics Year, nobel Laureate, Country of birth. 1963, wigner, eugene P. for his contributionsto the theory of the atomic nucleus and the elementary particles http://www.science.co.il/Nobel-Physics.asp

Israel Science and Technology Homepage HOME Search About Contact Nobel Prize Subject Biomedical Chemistry Economics Physics ... Literature Sort options Country Name Year Order A - Z Z - A Show citation Yes No Jewish Laureates of Nobel Prize in Physics Year Nobel Laureate Country of birth Alferov, Zhores I. "for basic work on information and communication technology" Russia Cohen-Tannoudji, Claude "for development of methods to cool and trap atoms with laser light" Algeria Lee, David M. "for their discovery of superfluidity in helium-3" USA Osheroff, Douglas D. "for their discovery of superfluidity in helium-3" USA Perl, Martin L. "for the discovery of the tau lepton " Russia Reines, Frederick "for the detection of the neutrino" USA Charpak, Georges "for his invention and development of particle detectors, in particular the multiwire proportional chamber" Poland Friedman, Jerome I. "for their pioneering investigations concerning deep inelastic scattering of electrons on protons and bound neutrons, which have been of essential importance for the development of the quark model in particle physics" USA Lederman, Leon M.

17. Europhysics News NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 1999 (p of all schools is the Fasori Lutheran Gymnasium in Budapest, its fame havingbeen propagated by its nobel laureate alumni, eugene P. wigner and John C http://www.fi.uib.no/~csernai/Sci-Policy/gymnasiu.htm

europhysics news NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 1999 (p. 13O.) features What accounts for the legendary status of Hungarian schools? Hardworking teachers have always put the latest research in the hands of schoolchildren George Marx, Hungary The Hungarian Gymnasium The Economist) said: "The early 20th-century Hungarian education system was the most brilliant the world has seen until its close imitator in post-1945 Japan." The advantage of the gymnasium system is that in the best gymnasia students can be pressed toward the limits of their capacities: they are exposed to an intellectual rigor that is not usually reached in high schools in more democratic countries. In particular, the gymnasium system gives dignity to teachers who provide instruction in top secondary schools. A scholar or scientist who knows that his or her talents lie in pedagogy rather than in research does not feel he or she is falling back if he or she spends a whole life teaching in such a school. A fine teacher retiring at the age of sixty from the Minta Gymnasium in Budapest, for example, would find many of the most famous people in Hungary in his or her debt because they had passed through his or her hands. Enthusiasts say that the two most successful of these gymnasium systems in history have been the one in post-1945 Japan, and arguably that of Hungary from about 1890 almost to the 1930s. The average Japanese 18 year old is today more advanced in math than all except the top 1 % of American 18 year olds. The same would have been true of gymnasium pupils in Budapest in 1914.

18. Session I3 - Eugene Wigner Centennial. eugene P. wigner was born attended the Fasori Lutheran Gymnasium, which educated among others - John von Neumann, and John Harsanyi,nobel-laureate in http://www.eps.org/aps/meet/APR02/baps/abs/S2130.html

Previous session Next session Session I3 - Eugene Wigner Centennial. INVITED session, Sunday morning, April 21 Brazos, Albuquerque Convention Center Wigner in Hungary George Marx (Department of Physics, Eotvos University, Budapest, Hungary) Eugene Wigner, The First Nuclear Reactor Engineer Alvin M. Weinberg (Oak Ridge National Laboratory) All physicists recognize Eugene Wigner as a theoretical physicist of the very first rank. Yet Wigner's only advanced degree was in Chemical Engineering. His physics was largely self-taught. During WWII, Wigner brilliantly returned to his original occupation as an engineer. He led the small team of theoretical physicists and engineers who designed, in remarkable detail, the original graphite-moderated, water-cooled Hanford reactor, which produced the Pu239 of the Trinity and Nagasaki bombs. With his unparalleled understanding of chain reactors (matched only by Fermi) and his skill and liking for engineering, Wigner can properly be called the Founder of Nuclear Engineering. The evidence for this is demonstrated by a summary of his 37 Patents on various chain reacting systems. Wigner's Changing View of the Elementary Quantum Phenomenon John Archibald Wheeler (Princeton University and University of Texas at Austin) In 1961, Eugene Wigner argued that "the being with a consciousness must have a different role in quantum mechanics than the inanimate measuring device." By 1981, he had changed to a totally different position, one compatible with the position of Niels Bohr, that all it requires for the elementary quantum phenomenon is an elementary process brought to a close by an irreversible act of amplification (i.e. the click of a counter or the blackening of a grain of photographic emulsion.) It is instructive to review the reasons Wigner gives for this important change in his views.

19. Eugene Wigner - Wikipedia In 1963, wigner received the nobel Prize in Physics In 1992, at the age of 90, hepublished a fine memoir, The Recollections of eugene P. wigner (assisted by http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_Wigner

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20. Physics Biography The Recollections of eugene P. wigner. New York Plenum Press, 1992. $24.50.Taubes, Gary. nobel Dreams Power, Deceit, and the Ultimate Experiment. http://www.ericweisstein.com/encyclopedias/books/PhysicsBiography.html

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