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42. Creative Quotations From Eugene Wigner (1902-1995) eugene wigner in quotations to inspire creative thinking. http://www.creativequotations.com/one/1475.htm

Home Search Indexes E-books ... creative Creative Quotations from . . . Eugene Wigner 1902-1995) born on Nov 17 Hungarian-US physicist. "He was the joint winner, with Jensen and Mayer, of the Nobel Prize, 1963, for extensive work on quantum mechanics." Search millions of documents for Eugene Wigner Fishing For Creativity Creative Perfumes Physics is becoming so unbelievably complex that it is taking longer and longer to train a physicist. It takes so long to train a physicist to the place where he understands the nature of physical problems that he is already too old to solve them. It is nice to know that the computer understands the problem. But I would like to understand it too. "[While] solipsism may be logically consistent with present quantum mechanics, monism in the sense of materialism is not." The simplicities of natural laws arise through the complexities of the language we use for their expression. ""The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences"" Published Sources for the above Quotations: F: "In "Isaac Asimov's Book of Science and Nature Quotations," ed. Jason Shulman & Isaac Asimov, 1988."

43. Eugene P. Wigner Winner Of The 1963 Nobel Prize In Physics eugene P. wigner, a Nobel Prize Laureate in Physics, at the Nobel Prize Internet Archive. 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 Eugene P. Wigner - Nobel Lecture (submitted by Davis) The Limits of Science - Eugene P. Wigner (submitted by Jackson) his contributions to the theory of the atomic nucleus and the elementary particles, particularly through the discovery and application of fundamental symmetry principles (submitted by Gera Upomol) Back to The Nobel Prize Internet Archive Literature Peace Chemistry ... Medicine We always welcome your feedback and comments

44. Wigner, Eugene Paul. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 wigner, eugene Paul. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 200105. http://www.bartleby.com/65/wi/Wigner-E.html

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45. Wigner, Eugene (Paul) wigner, eugene Paul (19021995) The wigner effect is a rapid rise in temperature in a nuclear reactor pile when, under particle bombardment, http://www.cartage.org.lb/en/themes/Biographies/MainBiographies/W/Wigner/1.html

Wigner, Eugene Paul Hungarian-born US physicist who introduced the notion of parity, or symmetry theory, into nuclear physics, showing that all nuclear processes should be indistinguishable from their mirror images. For this and other work on nuclear structure, he shared the 1963 Nobel Prize for Physics. The Wigner effect is a rapid rise in temperature in a nuclear reactor pile when, under particle bombardment, such materials as graphite deform, swell, then suddenly release large amounts of energy. This was the cause of the fire at the British Windscale plant 1957. Educated at the Lutheran Gymnasium in Budapest, Wigner took up postgraduate studies in Berlin where he was present at Albert Einstein's seminars in the 1920s. He emigrated to the USA in 1930, and became a US citizen 1937. He was one of the scientists who persuaded President Roosevelt to commit the USA to developing the atom bomb. In 1960, he was awarded the Atoms for Peace Award, in recognition of his vigorous support for the peaceful use of atomic energy. He taught as a professor of mathematics at Princeton University for 40 years until his retirement 1971.

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47. National Academy Of Sciences - Deceased Member wigner, eugene P. Date of Birth, November 17, 1902. Elected to NAS, 1945. Date of Death, January 1, 1995. Biographical Memoir HTML PDF. http://www4.nationalacademies.org/nas/nasdece.nsf/(urllinks)/NAS-58MVM7?opendocu

48. Eugene Paul Wigner, November 17, 1902 — January 1, 1995 | By Frederick Seitz, E eugene wigner WAS A towering leader of modern physics for more than half of the 1The Collected Works of eugene Paul wigner. New York Springer Verlag http://www.nap.edu/html/biomems/ewigner.html

BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRS National Academy of Sciences Courtesy of Atoms for Peace Awards, Inc. Eugene Paul Wigner By Frederick Seitz, Erich Vogt, and Alvin M. Weinberg EUGENE WIGNER WAS A towering leader of modern physics for more than half of the twentieth century. While his greatest renown was associated with the introduction of symmetry theory to quantum physics and chemistry, for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize in physics for 1963, his scientific work encompassed an astonishing breadth of science, perhaps unparalleled during his time. In preparing this memoir, we have the impression we are attempting to record the monumental achievements of half a dozen scientists. There is the Wigner who demonstrated that symmetry principles are of great importance in quantum mechanics; who pioneered the application of quantum mechanics in the fields of chemical kinetics and the theory of solids; who was the first nuclear engineer; who formulated many of the most basic ideas in nuclear physics and nuclear chemistry; who was the prophet of quantum chaos; who served as a mathematician and philosopher of science; and the Wigner who was the supervisor and mentor of more than forty Ph.D. students in theoretical physics during his career of over four decades at Princeton University. His legacy also resides in the many concepts and phenomena that bear his name. There is, for example, the Wigner-Eckart theorem for the addition of angular momenta, the Wigner effect in nuclear reactors, the Wigner correlation energy, as well as the Wigner crystal in solids, the Wigner force, the Breit-Wigner formula in nuclear physics, and the Wigner distribution in the quantum theory of chaos.

49. Eugene Feenberg, October 6, 1906—November 7, 1977 | By George Pake | Biographic At Wisconsin he met eugene wigner, with whom he collaborated and helped prepare their 1937 paper on the structure of nuclei between helium and oxygen, http://www.nap.edu/readingroom/books/biomems/efeenberg.html

BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRS National Academy of Sciences Eugene Feenberg By George Pake THROUGHOUT HIS LONG, PRODUCTIVE career Eugene Feenberg demonstrated a steadfast dedication to theoretical physics. His pursuit of research served not only to advance the science of many-body physics, but it also was for him a great source of fulfillment and inner contentment. He pioneered in applying non-relativistic quantum mechanics to realistic microsystems. Through proficient development and application of approximation methods, he advanced nuclear theory and contributed importantly to the theory of quantum fluids. Quiet, warm, and conscientious, he was an inspiration to his students and colleagues. Among the young American-Jewish theoretical physicists who contributed so much to U.S. physics in the 1930s and 1940s, Gene Feenberg was somewhat unique in his western rather than urban eastern U.S. origins. He was born on October 6, 1906, in Fort Smith, Arkansas, to Polish emigrant parents, Louis and Esther Feenberg. Louis came to the United States in 1883, later returning to New York for a visit during which he met and married Esther Siegel. The Feenbergs had moved to Texas and then to Fort Smith from South Dakota. Gene was the first graduate of Fort Smith High School to attend college. He went to the University of Texas at Austin, where he majored in mathematics and physics. After only three years he graduated first in his class in 1929. Upon the urging of one of his professors, C. P. Boner, Gene applied to Harvard University, where he studied for a doctorate in physics under E. C. Kemble.

50. The Enrico Fermi Award - Eugene P. Wigner, 1958 eugene P. wigner, 1958 For contributions to nuclear and teoretival physics, to nuclear reactor development, and to practical applications of atomic energy. http://www.sc.doe.gov/sc-5/fermi/html/Laureates/1950s/eugenep.htm

51. Physics Today October 2002 eugene wigner, Nuclear Engineer. wigner led the design of the Hanford nuclear 24 in AM Weinberg, ed., The Collected Works of eugene Paul wigner, vol. http://www.physicstoday.com/vol-55/iss-10/p42.html

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56. Paul Wigner Paul wigner was born into a Jewish family in Hungary in 1902. Leo Szilard, eugene wigner, Niels Bohr, James Chadwick, James Franck, Emilio Segre, http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/SCwigner.htm

Paul Wigner Spartacus USA History British History Second World War ... Email Paul Wigner was born into a Jewish family in Hungary in 1902. After a university educated in Budapest he did postgraduate studies in Berlin where he attended lectures by Albert Einstein . Over the next few years he carried out research into nuclear physics and in 1927 concluded that parity is conserved in a nuclear reaction.. Wigner emigrated to the United States in 1930 where he became professor of theoretical physics. In August, 1939, Wigner joined with two other Jewish scientists, who had fled from Nazi Germany Albert Einstein and Leo Szilard , to write a letter to President Franklin D. Roosevelt , about the developments that had been taking place in nuclear physics. They warned Roosevelt that scientists in Germany were working on the possibility of using uranium to produce nuclear weapons. Roosevelt responded by setting up a scientific advisory committee to investigate the matter. He also had talks with the British government about ways of sabotaging the German efforts to produce nuclear weapons.

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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.

58. The Unreasonable Effectiveness Of Mathematics In The Natural Sciences by eugene wigner. The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences, in Communications in Pure and Applied Mathematics, vol. 13, No. 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."

59. Emch, Gérard G. wigner, eugene Paul Philosophical reflections and syntheses. Reprint of the 1995 original The collected works of eugene Paul wigner. 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.

60. Wigner, Eugene Paul, Hungarian JENÓ PÁL WIGNER (b. Nov. 17, 1902 wigner, eugene Paul,. Hungarian JENÓ PÁL wigner (b. Nov. After lecturing at the Technical Academy in Berlin (192830), wigner went to the United States. http://www.phy.bg.ac.yu/web_projects/giants/wigner.html

Wigner, Eugene Paul, After lecturing at the Technical Academy in Berlin (1928-30), Wigner went to the United States. Apart from two years (1936-38) as professor of physics at the University of Wisconsin, he spent his academic life at Princeton University, serving as a professor of mathematical physics from 1938 until his retirement in 1971. He became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 1937. While still in Europe he had developed the principles involved in applying group theory to quantum mechanics and evolved the concept of the symmetry in space and time that marks the behaviour of subatomic particles. In 1936 he worked out the theory of neutron absorption, which later proved useful in building nuclear reactors. With Leo Szilard and Edward Teller, both also from Hungary, Wigner in 1939 helped persuade Albert Einstein to write the historic letter to President Franklin D. Roosevelt that set in motion the U.S. atomic-bomb project. During World War II he worked at the Metallurgical Laboratory at the University of Chicago, where he helped Enrico Fermi construct the first atomic pile. Wigner also conducted research on quantum mechanics, the theory of the rates of chemical reactions, and nuclear structure. His publications include Dispersion Relations and Their Connection with Causality (1964) and Symmetries and Reflections (1967).

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