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Name: Eugene Paul Wigner
Birth Date: November 17, 1902
Death Date: January 1, 1995
Place of Birth: Budapest, Hungary
Place of Death: Princeton, New Jersey, United States
Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Occupations: physicist

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Biography of Eugene Paul Wigner
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The Hungarian-born American physicist Eugene Paul Wigner (1902-1995) formulated symmetry principles and, together with group theory, applied them in atomic, nuclear, and elementary particle physics. On November 17, 1902, Eugene P. Wigner was born in...
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Biography of Eugene Paul Wigner
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Eugene Paul Wigner was born in Budapest, Austria-Hungary (now Hungary) on November 17, 1902. A year after receiving a doctorate in chemical engineering from the Technische Hochschule in Berlin in 1925, Wigner received an invitation to work as an...
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Biography of Eugene Paul Wigner
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Eugene Paul Wigner's enormous contribution to various branches of physics, notably quantum and nuclear, was confirmed by his receipt of the 1963 Nobel Prize in physics (he shared the award with Maria Goeppert-Mayer and J. Hans D. Jensen). Recognizing...


Quotations
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Eugene Wigner Quotes
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Eugene Paul Wigner ( November 17 , 1902 – January 1 , 1995 ) was a Hungarian physicist and mathematician . Sourced A possible explanation of the physicist's use of mathematics to formulate his laws of nature is that he is a somewhat irresponsible...
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Eugene Wigner Quotes
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Physics is becoming so unbelievably complex that it is taking longer and longer to train a physicist. It is taking so long, in fact, to train a physicist to the place where he understands the nature of physical problems that he is already too old to...


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Eugene Wigner Information
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Eugene Paul Wigner (usually E. P. Wigner among physicists) (Hungarian Wigner Pál JenÅ‘) (November 17, 1902 – January 1, 1995) was a Hungarian physicist and mathematician. He received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1963 "for his contributions to...


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The Independent - London
OBITUARY: Professor Eugene Wigner
01/13/1995: 999 words, approx. 3 pages
Eugene Paul Wigner, physicist: born Budapest 11 November 1902; Professor of Mathematical Physics, Princeton University 1938-71; Nobel Prize for Physics 1963; married three times (one son, two daughters); died Princeton, New Jersey 1 January 1995 History shows curious and unexplained concentrations of genius...
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The Washington Post
Physicist Eugene Wigner Dies; Won Nobel, Pioneered A-Bomb
01/05/1995: 4,524 words, approx. 15 pages
Eugene P. Wigner, 92, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist who helped persuade Albert Einstein to promote the potential of nuclear power, died of pneumonia Jan. 1 at the Medical Center of Princeton. A professor emeritus in mathematical physics at Princeton University, Dr. Wigner won...
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Investor's Business Daily
He Had Firm Grasp Of Physics
6/25/2007: 1,143 words, approx. 4 pages
When studying physics, Enrico Fermi was in his element.So much so, he has an element named after him.That would be fermium, the 100th element, called that in his honor by admiring colleagues.He is the namesake of the Fermi Institute on the campus of the University...
 


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