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Eugene Wigner

1902 - 1995

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Eugene Paul Wigner (Hungarian: Wigner Jenő Pál, pronounced [ˈviɡnɛr ˈjɛnøː ˈpaːl]; November 17, 1902 – January 1, 1995) was 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 Berlin (now Technische Universität Berlin), Wigner worked as an assistant to Karl Weissenberg and Richard Becker at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute in Berlin, and David Hilbert at the University of Göttingen. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Eugene Wigner has received more than 983,455 page views. His biography is available in 84 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 77 in 2019). Eugene Wigner is the 65th most popular physicist (up from 86th in 2019), the 28th most popular biography from Hungary (up from 31st in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Hungarian Physicist.

Eugene Wigner is most famous for his work in quantum mechanics. He is credited with the discovery of the Wigner's Friend paradox, and he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1963.

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Among physicists, Eugene Wigner ranks 65 out of 851. Before him are Hermann von Helmholtz, Robert Andrews Millikan, Maria Goeppert Mayer, Otto Stern, Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, and J. Hans D. Jensen. After him are Johannes Stark, Rudolf Clausius, Otto von Guericke, Lev Landau, Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis, and Carl David Anderson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1902, Eugene Wigner ranks 13. Before him are Erik Erikson, Carl Rogers, John Steinbeck, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Halldór Laxness, and Talcott Parsons. After him are Fernand Braudel, Saud of Saudi Arabia, Nâzım Hikmet, Alfred Kastler, Kurt Alder, and Barbara McClintock. Among people deceased in 1995, Eugene Wigner ranks 5. Before him are Yitzhak Rabin, Emil Cioran, Gilles Deleuze, and Juan Manuel Fangio. After him are Michael Ende, Mikhail Botvinnik, Emmanuel Levinas, Adolf Butenandt, Gunnar Nordahl, Konrad Zuse, and Dean Martin.

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In Hungary

Among people born in Hungary, Eugene Wigner ranks 28 out of 1,077. Before him are John Zápolya (1487), Ladislaus the Posthumous (1440), Franz Lehár (1870), Count of St. Germain (1712), Ilona Staller (1951), and Victor Vasarely (1906). After him are György Lukács (1885), Viktor Orbán (1963), Archduchess Marie Valerie of Austria (1868), Ernő Rubik (1944), Andrew II of Hungary (1175), and Mary, Queen of Hungary (1371).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Hungary

Among physicists born in Hungary, Eugene Wigner ranks 2. Before him are Edward Teller (1908). After him are Leo Szilard (1898), Dennis Gabor (1900), Georg von Békésy (1899), Ferenc Krausz (1962), Arpad Elo (1903), Nicholas Kurti (1908), Zoltán Lajos Bay (1900), Valentine Telegdi (1922), and Egon Orowan (1902).

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