Eugene Paul Wigner - Nobel Prize in Physics — 1963
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Eugene Paul Wigner

Prize
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
Together with: Johannes Hans Daniel Jensen, Maria Göppert Mayer
Citizenship
HungaryHungaryUnited StatesUnited States
Languages
English, Hungarian
date of birth
11/17/1902
place of birth
Budapest
date of death
1/1/1995
place of death
Princeton
Lived
92 years

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occupation
  • university teacher
  • nuclear physicist
  • physicist
  • mathematician
  • theoretical physicist
field of work
  • physics
educated at
  • Technische Universität Berlin
    • start time: 1920
    • end time: 1925
  • Fasori Gimnázium
    • end time: 1919
employer
  • Manhattan Project
    • start time: 1942
    • end time: 1945
  • University of Göttingen
    • start time: 1927
    • end time: 1928
  • Leiden University
    • start time: 8/8/1956
    • end time: 12/3/1957
  • Princeton University
    • start time: 1930
    • end time: 1936
  • Princeton University
    • start time: 1938
    • end time: 1942
  • Princeton University
    • start time: 1946
    • end time: 1971
  • Technische Universität Berlin
    • start time: 1928
    • end time: 1933
  • Oak Ridge National Laboratory
    • start time: 1945
    • end time: 1946
  • University of Wisconsin–Madison
    • start time: 1936
    • end time: 1938
member of
  • Royal Society of London
  • Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • Hungarian Academy of Sciences
  • National Academy of Sciences
    • start time: 1945
  • American Association for the Advancement of Science
  • Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Lower Saxony
  • American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • American Philosophical Society
    • start time: 1944
  • American Physical Society
doctoral student
  • William Tout Sharp
  • Ralph Zvi Roskies
  • Theodore Duddell Newton
  • Francis Joseph Narcowich
  • Rajmund Lewis Somorjai
  • George Abraham Snow
  • Conyers Herring
  • Leonard Eisenbud
  • Joseph O. Hirschfelder
  • Abner Shimony
  • Victor Weisskopf
  • Fred Tappert
  • Marcos Moshinsky
  • Edwin Thompson Jaynes
  • John Bardeen
  • Frederick Seitz
notable work
  • Wigner's theorem
  • The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences
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