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Eugene Wigner
Hungarian-American physicist and mathematician (1902-1995)
Eugene Paul Wignerwas a Hungarian-American theoretical physicist who also contributed to mathematical physics. He received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1963 “for his contributions to the theory of the atomic nucleus and the elementary particles, particularly through the discovery and application of fundamental symmetry principles”.
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About the Eugene Wigner
Eugene Paul Wignerwas a Hungarian-American theoretical physicist who also contributed to mathematical physics. He received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1963 “for his contributions to the theory of the atomic nucleus and the elementary particles, particularly through the discovery and application of fundamental symmetry principles”.
A graduate of the Technical Hochschule Berlinin early 1946, but became frustrated with bureaucratic interference by the Atomic Energy Commission, and returned to Princeton.
In the postwar period, he served on a number of government bodies, including the National Bureau of Standards from 1947 to 1951, the mathematics panel of the National Research Council from 1951 to 1954, the physics panel of the National Science Foundation, and the influential General Advisory Committee of the Atomic Energy Commission from 1952 to 1957 and again from 1959 to 1964. In later life, he became more philosophical, and published The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences, his best-known work outside technical mathematics and physics.
4 Quotes by Eugene Wigner
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The simplicities of natural laws arise through the complexities of the language we use for their expression.
Eugene WignerHungarian-American physicist and mathematician (1902-1995)
- 2.
It is nice to know that the computer understands the problem. But I would like to understand it too.
Eugene WignerHungarian-American physicist and mathematician (1902-1995)
- 3.
Physics is becoming so unbelievably complex that it is taking longer and longer to train a physicist. It is taking so long, in fact, to train a physicist to the place where he understands the nature of physical problems that he is already too old to solve them.
Eugene WignerHungarian-American physicist and mathematician (1902-1995)
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It takes so long to train a physicist to the place where he understands the nature of physical problems that he is already too old to solve them.
Eugene WignerHungarian-American physicist and mathematician (1902-1995)