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EUGENE PAUL WIGNER
Chicago Met Lab
Manhattan Project
Eugene Paul Wigner, born in Budapest, Hungary, on November 17,
1902, naturalized a citizen of the United States on January 8, 1937, has
been since 1938 Thomas D. Jones Professor of Mathematical Physics at Princeton
University - he retired in 1971. His formal education was acquired
in Europe; he obtained the Dr. Ing. degree at the Technische
Hochschule Berlin. Married in 1941 to Mary Annette Wheeler, he is
the father of two children, David and Martha. His son, David, is
teaching mathematics at the University
of California in Berkeley. His daughter, Martha, is with the Chicago
area transportation system, an organization endeavoring to improve the
internal transportation system of that city. Dr.Wigner worked on the
Manhattan Project at the University of
Chicago during World War II, from 1942 to 1945, and in 1946-1947
became Director of Research and Development at Clinton Laboratories.
Official recognition of his work in nuclear research includes the U. S.
Medal for Merit, presented in 1946; the Enrico Fermi Prize (U.S.A.E.C.)
awarded in 1958; and the Atoms for Peace Award, in 1960. Dr. Wigner
holds the Medal of the Franklin Society, the Max Planck Medal of the
German Physical Society, the George Washington Award of the
American-Hungarian Studies Foundation (1964), the Semmelweiss Medal of
the American-Hungarian Medical Association (1965), and the National
Medal of Science (1969). He has received honorary degrees from the University
of Wisconsin, Washington
University, Case Institute, University
of Alberta ( Canada ), University of Chicago, Colby College, University
of Pennsylvania, Yeshiva University,
Thiel College, Notre
Dame University, Technische
Universität Berlin, Swarthmore
College, Université de Louvain,
Université de Liège, University
of Illinois, Seton Hall, Catholic University and The
Rockefeller University. He is a past vice- president and president
of the American Physical Society, of which he remains a member. He is a
past member of the board of directors of the American Nuclear Society
and still a member; he holds memberships in the American Philosophical
Society, the American Mathematical Society, the American Association of
Physics Teachers, the National Academy of
Science, the American Academy of
Arts and Sciences, the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences and
Letters, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the
Austrian Academy of Sciences, he is corresponding member of the
Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften, Gottingen, and foreign member of the
Royal Society of Great Brittain. He was a member of the General Advisory
Committee to the U. S. Atomic Energy Commission from 1952-1957, was
reappointed to this committee in 1959 and served on it until 1964.
From Nobel
Lectures, Physics 1963-1970.
Wigner died in 1995
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