Eugene Wigner

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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 World War II.

Personal Life

Early Life

Born in 1902, Wigner had two sisters, Bertha and Margit. He was the son of Elisabeth and Anthony Wigner. He was 9 years old when he became interested in mathematics, which only grew from then. He studied chemical engineering at Technische Hochschule in Berlin, where he met physicist Leo Szilard who then became friends. From then, he accepted jobs working on a variety of projects involving x-ray crystallography and quantum mechanics which started his most notable works.

Scientific Significance

Wigner's work with quantum mechanics lead to the formation of group theory in quantum mechanics.

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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

-Group Theory and Its Application to the Quantum Mechanics of Atomic Spectra by Eugene Wigner

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