41. Eugene Wigner The Recollections of eugene P. wigner (1992, memoir). Do you know something wedon t? Submit a correction or make a comment about this profile http://www.nndb.com/people/835/000099538/

This is a beta version of NNDB Search: All Names Living people Dead people Band Names Book Titles Movie Titles Full Text for Eugene Wigner AKA Eugene Paul Wigner Born: 17-Nov-1902 Birthplace: Budapest, Hungary Died: 1-Jan-1995 Location of death: Princeton, NJ Cause of death: unspecified Gender: Male Religion: Jewish Ethnicity: White Sexual orientation: Straight Occupation: Physicist Level of fame: Niche Executive summary: Law of conservation of parity Wife: Mary Annette Wheeler (m. 1941, one son, one daughter) Son: David (math professor) Daughter: Martha University: Dr. Ing., Technische Hochschule Berlin (1925) Professor: Professor: Physics, University of Wisconsin (1936-38) Professor: Mathematical Physics, Princeton University (1938-71) Manhattan Project Nobel Prize for Physics 1963 (with J. Hans D. Jensen, Maria Goeppert Mayer) Enrico Fermi Award Max Planck Medal National Medal of Science American Physical Society VP and President American Philosophical Society National Academy of Sciences American Association for the Advancement of Science American Academy of Arts and Sciences ... Naturalized U.S. Citizen 8-Jan-1937 Author of books: Gruppentheorie und Ihre Anwendung auf die Quantenmechanik der Atomspektren , physics) Symmetries and Reflections , physics) The Recollections of Eugene P. Wigner

42. Physics Today October 2002 See p. 24 in AM Weinberg, ed., The Collected Works of eugene Paul wigner, vol.5, SpringerVerlag, New York (1992). 3. See, for example, M. Bundy, http://www.physicstoday.com/vol-55/iss-10/p42.html

document.writeln(AAMB7); Search advanced search Table of contents Past issues Links to advertisers ... Virtual Journals Feature Article Eugene Wigner, Nuclear Engineer Wigner led the design of the Hanford nuclear reactors and founded a school to teach reactor physics to people working in industry. Alvin M. Weinberg In addition to being a theoretical physicist of the first rank, Eugene Wigner (1902-95) was the founder of nuclear engineering. He led the group that designed the first very high-powered nuclear reactors, which were built at Hanford, Washington, for the production of the isotope plutonium-239. I first met Wigner (see portrait, Figure 1 ) in the winter of 1942. At the time of our first meeting, he was commuting between his home in Princeton, New Jersey, and the University of Chicago, where the plutonium part of the Manhattan Project was being centralized. I have since been very closely associated with him, and he and I collaborated on The Physical Theory of Neutron Chain Reactors (U. of Chicago Press, 1958).

43. Eugene P Wigner Philosophical Reflections And Syntheses eugene P wigner Philosophical Reflections and Syntheses. http://www.u-m-l.de/Philosophical-Reflections-and-Syntheses-000000567710.html

Eugene P Wigner Philosophical Reflections and Syntheses Philosophical Reflections and Syntheses Wigner Eugene P Eugene P. Wigner Annotated by Gerard G. Emch Verlagstext Among the founding fathers of modern quantum physics few have contributed to our basic understanding of its concepts as much as E.P. Wigner. His articles on the epistemology of quantum mechanics and the measurement problem, and the basic role of symmetries were of fundamental importance for all subsequent work. He was also the first to discuss the concept of consciousness from the point of view of modern physics. G.G. Emch edited most of those papers and wrote a very helpful introduction into Wigner's contributions to Natural Philosophy. Physik / [Mathematik / Naturwissenschaften / Technik / Medizin] [Physik / Astronomie] Allgemeines / Lexika / Geschichte / Berufe Übersetzerbau Ebbe und Flut Mischer Kristallzüchtung ... XML Schema, Engl. ed.

44. The Unreasonable Effectiveness Of Mathematics In The Natural Sciences by eugene wigner. The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Hamburg, 157 (1922), or Gesammelte Werke (Berlin Springer, 1935), p. http://www.dartmouth.edu/~matc/MathDrama/reading/Wigner.html

Reading Materials The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences by Eugene Wigner Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beautya beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture, without appeal to any part of our weaker nature, without the gorgeous trappings of painting or music, yet sublimely pure, and capable of a stern perfection such as only the greatest art can show. The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as in poetry. BERTRAND RUSSELL, Study of Mathematics THERE IS A story about two friends, who were classmates in high school, talking about their jobs. One of them became a statistician and was working on population trends. He showed a reprint to his former classmate. The reprint started, as usual, with the Gaussian distribution and the statistician explained to his former classmate the meaning of the symbols for the actual population, for the average population, and so on. His classmate was a bit incredulous and was not quite sure whether the statistician was pulling his leg. "How can you know that?" was his query. "And what is this symbol here?" "Oh," said the statistician, "this is pi." "What is that?" "The ratio of the circumference of the circle to its diameter." "Well, now you are pushing your joke too far," said the classmate, "surely the population has nothing to do with the circumference of the circle."

45. 0103wigner.html PRINCETON, NJ eugene P. wigner, Nobel Prizewinning Princeton received theAmerican Nuclear Society s inaugural eugene P. wigner 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

46. Nobel Prize In Physics 1963 eugene P. wigner Button 1/2 of prize Button Hungary USA Button born 1902 (Budapest,Hungary), died 1995 Button CA Princeton University, Princeton, http://www.slac.stanford.edu/library/nobel/nobel1963.html

Home About Contact "for his contributions to the theory of the atomic nucleus and the elementary particles, particularly through the discovery and application of fundamental symmetry principles" Eugene P. Wigner 1/2 of prize born 1902 (Budapest, Hungary), died 1995 CA - Princeton University , Princeton, New Jersey, USA AA - Princeton University WA - Princeton University University of Chicago (Manhattan Project), Chicago, Illinois, USA Additional Information "for their discoveries concerning nuclear shell structure" Maria Goeppert-Mayer 1/4 of prize born 1906, (Kattowitz, then Germany), died 1972 CA - University of California at San Diego , San Diego, California, USA AA - University of Chicago Enrico Fermi Institute Argonne National Laboratory , Chicago, Illinois, USA WA - University of Chicago Enrico Fermi Institute Argonne National Laboratory Additional Information Johannes Hans D. Jensen 1/4 of prize Germany born 1907, died 1973 CA - University of Heidelberg , Heidelberg, Germany University of Heidelberg University of Heidelberg Additional Information Additional Information: Nobel e-Museum Prize in Physics 1963 Eugene P. Wigner:

47. AIP Niels Bohr Library Symmetries and reflections scientific essays of eugene P. wigner / eugene wigner.by wigner, eugene Paul, 1902. Cambridge, Mass. http://www.aip.org/history/catalog/23919.html

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49. Eugene Paul Wigner Biography / Biography Of Eugene Paul Wigner Biographies On November 17, 1902, eugene P. wigner was born in Budapest, the son of Anthonywigner, a leather manufacturer, and Elisabeth Einhorn wigner. http://www.bookrags.com/biography/eugene-paul-wigner/

Search BookRags.com English History Other Subjects Essays Biographies Research Topics eBooks Register Login Help Literature Study Guides ... Games Welcome, Guest Why not Login or Register Biography Navigation Eugene Paul Wigner Index Main Biography World of Physics Biography History of Scientific Discovery Biography How to Cite Order the PDF Home Biography Eugene Paul Wigner Biographies Complete Biographical Resource See related items by keyword: university theory mathematics nobel laureates ... symmetry physics 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 Eugene Paul Wigner Biographies The following biographies focus on different aspects of Eugene Paul Wigner's life and work. All biographies listed are included in the Eugene Paul Wigner Biography Pass. Main Biography (3.4 pages) World of Physics Biography (5 pages) History of Scientific Discovery Biography (2.7 pages) Eugene Paul Wigner Biography Each biography is written by a biographical expert, professional educator, or scholar of the individual.

50. Eugene Wigner Translate this page Symmetries and Reflections Scientific Essays of eugene P. wigner. Alvin M.Weinberg, eugene P. wigner Physical Theory of Neutron Chain Reactors http://encyclopedie-it.snyke.com/articles/eugene_wigner.html

Eugene Wigner Eugene Paul Wigner in ungherese Budapest 17 novembre - Princeton, USA 1 gennaio ) fu un influente fisico e matematico ungherese di nascita, naturalizzato statunitense , vincitore del Premio Nobel per la fisica nel Egli appartiene alla generazione dei fisici che negli anni Venti hanno rifondato il mondo della fisica , lavorando in sedi come Berlino Londra Zurigo Pisa , anche se non ancora a New York o Chicago Werner Heisenberg Erwin Schr¶dinger e Paul Dirac meccanica quantistica , cio¨ un nuovo stupefacente scenario nel quale si aprivano dozzine di nuovi interrogativi fondamentali per la fisica. Un nuovo manipolo di ricercatori (con alcune ricercatrici) si sono addentrati in questo scenario per rispondere alle prime domande e per porne altre, spesso pi¹ complesse. Wigner ha fatto parte della seconda ondata di questi fisici ed ha proposto e risolto alcune delle questioni pi¹ profonde della fisica del XX secolo . Egli ha posto le fondamenta della teoria delle simmetrie nella meccanica quantistica, mentre sul finire degli anni Trenta ha esteso le sue ricerche al nucleo atomico , ricerca per la quale vinse il Premio Nobel nel 1963.

51. Wigner's Sisters A. Szanton, The Recollection of eugene P. wigner (Plenum, New York, 1992).YS Kim and ME Noz, Theory and Applications of the Poincar\ e Group} (Reidel, http://www.physics.umd.edu/robot/wigner/wigsis.html

Wigner's Sisters Y. S. Kim Department of Physics, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742, U.S.A. (written in 1995) Aabstract: Paul A. M. Dirac was a great physicist. Wigner used to call him "my famous brother-in-law." How did they become brothers-in-law? Did these two great physicists have the same view toward physics? I have been asked by the organizers of this Symposium to write about Eugene Wigner's life. Yes, he was a great physicist and was a great human being. I have been fortunate enough to have been associated with him especially in his late years. However, it will require years of full-time research to write his biography if anyone decides to do so. In the meantime, there is a an excellent book about him entitled "Recollections of Eugene P. Wigner as told by Andrew Szanton" [1]. Eugene Wigner with his parents and two sisters. On his right is Manci Dirac. According to this review, I am in a position to say something about Wigner and his brother-in-law whose name was Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac. When I was visiting Wigner frequently during the period 198590, he had two sisters living in the United States. They were all born in Hungary in a well-to-do family. His elder sister was in Binghamton (New York), and his younger sister was and still is in Tallahassee (Florida). The elder sister's health was deteriorating, and Wigner was always concerned about her and talking about her. The younger sister's name is Margit Dirac or Mrs. Paul A. M. Dirac. She is known as Manci in the physics community. One day when I was in Wigner's office at Princeton, he made a telephone call to Manci in order to say "Happy Birthday" to her. After a brief talk in Hungarian, Wigner laughed and told me Manci was complaining that his call disrupted her shopping trip. He then told me how she became Mrs. Dirac.

52. The Wigner Medal eugene P. wigner receiving the first wigner Medal from Arno R. Bohm in 1978.The 2002 wigner Medal Ceremony. Harry J. Lipkin receiving the 2002 wigner Medal http://www.ph.utexas.edu/~bohmwww/wigner/

The Wigner Medal The Wigner Medal was established in 1977/8 and was awarded for the first time at the Integrative Conference on Group Theory and Mathematical Physics (7th International Group Theory Colloquium 1978) to Eugene P. Wigner and Valentine Bargmann. The purpose of the Wigner Medal is to recognize outstanding contributions to the understanding of physics through group theory. The Wigner Medal is administered by the Group Theory and Fundamental Physics Foundation, a publicly supported organization. Donations are tax deductible as provided in Section 170 of the Internal Revenue code. Bylaws of the Wigner Medal (pdf format) The Wigner Medal 2002 The Wigner Medal is awarded for "outstanding contributions to the understanding of physics through group theory." The awardee is chosen by an international selection committee whose members are elected by the Board of Trustees of the Foundation and by the Standing Committee of the International Group Theory Colloquium. The previous recipients of the Wigner Medal are: E. P. Wigner

53. Emch, Gérard G. The philosophy of eugene P. wigner. Classical and quantum systems (Goslar, 1991),28, World Sci. Publishing, River Edge, NJ, 1993. 8103 (01A70 81P05) http://www.math.ufl.edu/fac/facmr/Emch.html

77 papers Probabilistic issues in statistical mechanics. (English. English summary) Stud. Hist. Philos. Sci. B Stud. Hist. Philos. Modern Phys. (2005), no. 2, 303322. Explaining quantum spontaneous symmetry breaking. (English. English summary) Stud. Hist. Philos. Sci. B Stud. Hist. Philos. Modern Phys. (2005), no. 1, 137163. Interactive modelling. (English. English summary) J. Statist. Phys. (2004), no. 1-4, 1728. Emch, G. G.(1-FL) Is there a quantum de Finetti programme? (English. English summary) Math. Model. Phys. Eng. Cogn. Sci., 5, The logic of thermostatistical physics. (English. English summary) Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 2002. xvi+703 pp. ISBN Emch, G. G.(1-FL); Jadczyk, A. Z.(PL-WROC-P) Weakly projective representations, quaternions, and monopoles. (English. English summary) Stochastic processes, physics and geometry: new interplays, II (Leipzig, 1999), CMS Conf. Proc., 29, Amer. Math. Soc., Providence, RI, Chaotic dynamics in non-commutative geometry. (English. English summary) PWN, Warsaw, On the need to adapt de Finetti's probability interpretation to QM.

54. Wigner, Eugene Paul - Columbia Encyclopedia® Article About Wigner, Eugene Paul wigner, eugene Paul. Information about wigner, eugene Paul in the Columbia wigner s semicircle law wigner, eugene P(aul) wigner, eugene Paul http://columbia.thefreedictionary.com/Wigner, Eugene Paul

Domain='thefreedictionary.com' word='Wigner, Eugene Paul' Your help is needed: American Red Cross The Salvation Army join mailing list webmaster tools Word (phrase): Word Starts with Ends with Definition subscription: Dictionary/ thesaurus Computing dictionary Medical dictionary Legal dictionary Financial dictionary Acronyms Columbia encyclopedia Wikipedia encyclopedia Hutchinson encyclopedia Wigner, Eugene Paul 0.02 sec. Page tools Printer friendly Cite / link Email Feedback Wigner, Eugene Paul Manhattan Project Manhattan Project, the wartime effort to design and build the first nuclear weapons ( atomic bombs ). With the discovery of fission in 1939, it became clear to scientists that certain radioactive materials could be used to make a bomb of unprecented power. U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt responded by creating the Uranium Committee to investigate this possibility. Click the link for more information. , which resulted in the first atomic bomb. After beginning his association with the Atomic Energy Commission in 1947, he served as a member of its general advisory committee from 1952 to 1957 and from 1959 to 1964. He shared the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physics with U.S. physicist Maria Goeppert-Mayer and German physicist J. H. D. Jensen for work on the structure of the atomic nucleus. Wigner also received other major awards, including the National Science Medal and Atoms for Peace Award. Mentioned in References in classic literature No references found No references found

55. Filling The Talent Pipeline eugene P. wigner (19021995), a Hungarian, was the first director of researchand development at Clinton Laboratories (now ORNL), serving in this position http://www.eurekalert.org/features/doe/2005-07/drnl-ftt071005.php

Text-Only Privacy Policy Site Map Filling the talent pipeline The Wigner Fellowship program has been a successful effort to attract and develop young scientific talent. Click here ; for a high resolution photograph. As head of Ph.D. recruiting at ORNL in 1975, Dan Robbins had a message for Herman Postma, the new ORNL director. Robbins, Chuck Coutant, and other Laboratory scientists had been visiting outstanding research universities to interview the most impressive graduate students in science and engineering. Their challenge was an inability to offer jobs to the most promising students. Recounts Robbins: "Professors would say, 'This is the best student we've ever seen in metallurgy,' but then we would learn that the Metals and Ceramics Division at ORNL had no money or had not turned in a job description for an open position, so we could not hire this fantastic metallurgist." Robbins, Coutant, and the other Ph.D. recruiters brainstormed options. What if ORNL could hire the students using a two-year fellowship? The appropriate division could be exposed to the young scientist's energy and imagination. Meanwhile, a fellowship would give the fortunate division time to identify needed funds and create an appropriate research position. The group urged Robbins to bring the proposal to Postma's attention. Robbins met with the new director and suggested that a two-year fellowship would be a viable way to bring promising young researchers to Oak Ridge before competing institutions snapped them up. Postma offered to fund "a couple of these special postdoc positions out of overhead at a compensation rate comparable to that of an entry-level researcher," Robbins says. "This was a fantastic postdoc rate at the time." He recalls that Postma proposed naming the fellowship in honor of Nobel Laureate Eugene Paul Wigner, the laboratory's former research director and "patron saint." Thus was born the Wigner Fellowship, one of ORNL's most successful recruiting programs.

56. Exploring And Modeling 21st Century Materials Thomas Maier, recently named a eugene P. wigner Fellow at ORNL, used the Cray X1supercomputer at CCS to confirm his suspicion that a widely used computer http://www.eurekalert.org/features/doe/2004-08/drnl-eam081104.php

Text-Only Privacy Policy Site Map Exploring and modeling 21st Century materials Computational materials scientists at ORNL are using the high-performance computing infrastructure at CCS to explore superconductivity and magnetic nanostructures Using a CCS supercomputer, researchers calculated the magnetic structure of a quantum corral nanostructure, which consists of magnetic iron atoms deposited on a copper surface that "corral" copper electrons. Full size image available through contact The 1986 discovery of high-temperature superconductivity sparked the quest for room-temperature superconductors that could transmit electrical current without heat losses and without the need for an expensive coolant such as liquid helium. Room-temperature superconductors could make possible ultra-efficient power transmission lines, practical electric cars, and superconducting magnets that could bring high-speed levitated trains and smaller, more efficient, and less costly rotating machinery, appliances, particle accelerators, electric generators, and medical imaging devices. High-temperature superconductors are being used commercially. A few urban utility companies have tripled their capacity to carry power simply by replacing existing underground cables with liquid-nitrogen-cooled superconducting cables. Cellular telephone towers have extended their reception range and call-handling ability with superconducting signal filters.

57. PARTICIPANT INFORMATION A. Breakfast Residents in the II Rabi, eugene P. wigner and Patrick MS Blackett There is also a public telephone in the eugene P. wigner Institute http://phacts.phys.lsu.edu/ISCRA/participant_information.html

PARTICIPANT INFORMATION "Astrophysical Sources of High Energy Particles & Radiation" A NATO Advanced Study Institute PST.ASI.976393 11 - 21 November 2000 Erice, Italy I. THE "ETTORE MAJORANA" FOUNDATION AND CENTRE FOR SCIENTIFIC CULTURE The "Ettore Majorana" Foundation and International Centre for Scientific Culture (EMFCSC) is named after an outstanding Italian physicist. Born in Sicily in 1906, Ettore Majorana's breadth of vision and exceptional contributions to theoretical nuclear physics moved Enrico Fermi to the following comment: "There are many categories of scientists, people of second and third rank, who do their best, but do not go very far. There are also people of first-class rank, who make great discoveries, fundamental to the development of science. But then there are the geniuses, like Galileo and Newton. Well, Ettore Majorana was one of them." Embracing 110 Schools, covering all branches of Science, the Centre is situated in the old pre-mediaeval city of Erice where three restored monasteries (one of which was the residence of the Viceroy of Sicily during the XIV and XV Centuries) provide an appropriate setting for high intellectual endeavor. There are living quarters in all three Institutes for people attending the Courses at the Centre The contact address for participants attending this course is: Participant Name Intl. School of Cosmic Ray Astrophysics

58. Mayer, Maria Goeppert --  Britannica Student Encyclopedia (The other half of the prize was awarded to eugene P. wigner of the United Statesfor unrelated work.) Jensen, J. Hans D. German physicist who shared http://www.britannica.com/ebi/article-9275748

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59. Jensen, J. Hans D. --  Encyclopædia Britannica (The other half of the prize was awarded to eugene P. wigner for unrelated work.) wigner, eugene Paul Hungarianborn American physicist, joint winner, http://www.britannica.com/eb/article?tocId=9043531

60. Eugene_Wigner Symmetries and Reflections Scientific Essays of eugene P. wigner. Alvin M.Weinberg, eugene P. wigner Physical Theory of Neutron Chain Reactors http://copernicus.subdomain.de/Eugene_Wigner

Suche: Main Page '''Eugene Paul Wigner''' ( Hungarian November 17 January 1 ) was a Hungarian physicist and mathematician He was one of a generation of physicists of the who remade the world of physics . It was a collection of people from Berlin to London to Z�rich to Pisa , though not quite yet to New York or Chicago Werner Heisenberg Erwin Schr�dinger , and Paul Dirac quantum mechanics . Quantum mechanics was a dazzling new world, which threw open dozens of fundamental physical questions. A new set of men (and a few women) came along behind them, to answer the first questions and pose others, often more complex. Wigner was in this second set of physicists. He posed and answered some of the most profound questions of 20th-century physics. He laid the foundation for the theory of symmetries in quantum mechanics. In the late , he extended his research into atomic nuclei Between and , this generation of physicists helped to remake the world again. This time it was a far greater, more public world they remade: one of armies, peoples, ideologies. They did it first by seeing that an atomic bomb could be built; and then by arguing that it must be built, in the United States, immediately; and finally by playing the crucial role in getting the bomb built, under terrible pressure.

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