Eugene Wigner
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Eugene Paul "E. P." Wigner (Hungarian: Wigner Jenő Pál; November 17, 1902 – Januar 1, 1995), wis a Hungarian-American theoretical pheesicist, ingineer an mathematician. He received hauf o the Nobel Prize in Pheesics in 1963 "for his contreibutions tae the theory o the atomic nucleus an the elementary pairticles, pairteecularly throu the discovery an application o fundamental symmetry principles".[1] His brither-in-law wis Paul Dirac, whose wife wis Wigner's sister.[2]
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Born | Eugene Paul Wigner 17 November 1902(1902-11-17) Budapest, Austrick-Hungary |
Dee'd | 1 Januar 1995(1995-01-01) (aged 92) Princeton, New Jersey, US |
Citizenship | American (post-1937) Hungarian (pre-1937) |
Alma mater | Technical Varsity o Berlin |
Kent for | Bargmann–Wigner equations Law o conservation o parity Wigner D-matrix Wigner–Eckart theorem Wigner's friend Wigner semicircle distribution Wigner's clessification Wigner distribution function Wigner quasi-probability distribution Wigner crystal Wigner effect Wigner energy Wigner lattice Relativistic Breit–Wigner distribution Modified Wigner distribution function Wigner–d'Espagnat inequality Gabor–Wigner transform Wigner's theorem Jordan–Wigner transformation Newton–Wigner localisation Wigner-Inonu contraction Wigner–Seitz cell Wigner–Seitz radius Thomas-Wigner rotation Wigner–Weyl transform Wigner-Wilkins Spectra 6-j seembol 9-j seembol |
Hauf-marrae(s) | Amelia Frank (1936–1937; her daith) Mary Annette Wheeler (1941–1977; her daith; 2 bairns) Eileen Clare-Patton Hamilton (1 bairn) (died November 21, 2010) |
Awairds | Medal for Merit (1946) Franklin Medal (1950) Enrico Fermi Awaird (1958) Atoms for Peace Awaird (1959) Max Planck Medal (1961) Nobel Prize in Pheesics (1963) Naitional Medal o Science (1969) Albert Einstein Awaird (1972) Wigner Medal (1978) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Theoretical pheesics Atomic pheesics Nuclear pheesics Solit-state pheesics |
Institutions | Varsity o Göttingen Varsity o Wisconsin–Madison Princeton Varsity Manhattan Project |
Doctoral advisor | Michael Polanyi |
Other academic advisors | László Rátz Richard Becker |
Doctoral students | John Bardeen Victor Frederick Weisskopf Marcos Moshinsky Abner Shimony Edwin Thompson Jaynes Frederick Seitz Conyers Herring Frederick Tappert J O Hirschfelder |
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