Wigner Jenő Pál

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Wigner Jenő Pál was a Hungarian-American theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate renowned for his foundational contributions to the theory of symmetries in quantum mechanics and nuclear physics.

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instanceOf Hungarian-American
Nobel laureate in Physics
human
theoretical physicist
awardReceived Enrico Fermi Award
Max Planck Medal
National Medal of Science
Nobel Prize in Physics
birthDate 1902-11-17
birthPlace Budapest
Kingdom of Hungary
countryOfCitizenship Hungary
United States of America
deathDate 1995-01-01
doctoralAdvisor Michael Polanyi
Richard Becker
educatedAt Budapest University of Technology and Economics
surface form: Budapest University of Technical and Economic Sciences

Technical University of Berlin
employer Manhattan Project
Chicago Metallurgical Laboratory
surface form: Metallurgical Laboratory, University of Chicago

Princeton University
University of Wisconsin–Madison
familyName Eugene Wigner
surface form: Wigner
fieldOfWork nuclear physics
quantum mechanics
theoretical physics
givenName Eugene
Jenő
knownFor Wigner crystal
Wigner surmise
surface form: Wigner surmise in random matrix theory

Wigner–Eckart theorem
Wigner–Seitz cell
Wigner’s classification of particles
Wigner’s friend thought experiment
Wigner’s theorem on symmetry transformations
theory of symmetries in quantum mechanics
languageOfWorkOrName English
German
Hungarian
memberOf American Physical Society
Hungarian Academy of Sciences
National Academy of Sciences
surface form: United States National Academy of Sciences
name Eugene Wigner
surface form: Eugene Paul Wigner

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NobelPrizeMotivation for contributions to the theory of the atomic nucleus and the elementary particles, particularly through the discovery and application of fundamental symmetry principles
NobelPrizeYear 1963
notableWork Group Theory and Its Application to the Quantum Mechanics of Atomic Spectra
Symmetries and Reflections
The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences
placeOfDeath Princeton, New Jersey, United States
positionHeld director of research and development, Clinton Laboratories (Oak Ridge)
professor at Princeton University
religion Judaism

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