Eugene Wigner

Topic under construction by Courtney Branson 12/1/15

The Main Idea

Eugene Wigner was a Hungarian American born in Austria-Hungary in 1902. He recieved part of the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physics due to his work with the theory of the atomic nucleus. He worked with such greats as Albert EInstein, Leo Szilard, and Franklin D. Roosevelt to prepare the United States for the Manhattan Project, a project to build an atomic bomb during the time of the Cold War.

A Mathematical Model

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See also

- The Manhattan Project

- Atomic Bomb

- Einstein-Szilard letter

Further reading

- The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences by Eugene Wigner

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