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Wigner Eugene Paul. 1902--95, US physicist, born in Hungary. He is noted for his contributions to nuclear physics: shared the Nobel prize for physics 1963 How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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One Nobel laureate, Eugene Wigner, called him "one of the most thoughtful statesmen of science," but another laureate, Isadore Rabi, said of Teller's influence, "It would have been a better world without him. His early years are notable chiefly for the friendships he formed with three other young Hungarians, all of them destined to become world-famous physicists who aided the Manhattan Project in decisive ways: Eugene Wigner, John von Neumann and Leo Szilard. Nobel laureate Eugene Wigner and others suggested how dilute clouds of so-called conduction electrons, which roam freely in a metal, might become ordered and generate magnetism. |
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