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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Eugene Wigner |
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| Born | Eugene Paul Wigner
17 November 1902(1902-11-17)
Budapest, Austrick-Hungary |
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| Dee'd | 1 Januar 1995(1995-01-01) (aged 92)
Princeton, New Jersey, US |
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| Citizenship | American (post-1937)
Hungarian (pre-1937) |
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| Alma mater | Technical Varsity o Berlin |
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| 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 |
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| 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) |
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| 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) |
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| Scientific career |
| Fields | Theoretical pheesics
Atomic pheesics
Nuclear pheesics
Solit-state pheesics |
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| Institutions | Varsity o Göttingen
Varsity o Wisconsin–Madison
Princeton Varsity
Manhattan Project |
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| Doctoral advisor | Michael Polanyi |
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| Other academic advisors | László Rátz
Richard Becker |
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| 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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