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A Century of IdeasSymmetry in the Micro World – A Conversation with Nobel Laureate Eugene Wigner

A Century of Ideas: Symmetry in the Micro World – A Conversation with Nobel Laureate Eugene Wigner Symmetry in the Micro World – A Conversation with Nobel Laureate Eugene Wigner B.G. Sidharth B.M. Birla Science Centre, Adarsh Nagar, Hyderabad, India Prof. Eugene Wigner was considered to be a superstar of physics along with his brother-in-law P.A.M. Dirac and the legendary R.P. Feynman. Eugene Paul Wigner’s decades of yeomen service to the cause of comprehending nature in its barest, most fundamental aspect climaxed in the 1963 Nobel Prize for physics. He was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1902 and went to earn his PhD at the Technische Hochschule in Berlin. Wigner who had already rubbed shoulders with legends like Dirac, Jordan, Niels Bohr, Wernher Heisenberg and Albert Einstein, became an American citizen in 1937. From 1938 he was Thomas D Jones Professor of mathematical physics at Princeton University, till his retirement in 1971. During these distinguished decades, Prof. Wigner partic- ipated in the celebrated World War II Manhattan Project at the University of Chicago. Thereafter he directed research and development at the Clinton laboratories. Prof. Wigner has been honoured with an endless string of awe- inspiring awards. From the US medal for merit in 1946 to the National Medal of Science in 1969. Not to mention honorary http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

A Century of IdeasSymmetry in the Micro World – A Conversation with Nobel Laureate Eugene Wigner

Part of the Fundamental Theories of Physics Book Series (volume 149)
Editors: Sidharth, B. G.
Sidharth, B. G.
A Century of Ideas — Jan 1, 2008
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Publisher
Springer Netherlands
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© Springer Netherlands 2008
ISBN
978-1-4020-4359-8
Pages
205 –207
DOI
10.1007/978-1-4020-4360-4_15
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Symmetry in the Micro World – A Conversation with Nobel Laureate Eugene Wigner B.G. Sidharth B.M. Birla Science Centre, Adarsh Nagar, Hyderabad, India Prof. Eugene Wigner was considered to be a superstar of physics along with his brother-in-law P.A.M. Dirac and the legendary R.P. Feynman. Eugene Paul Wigner’s decades of yeomen service to the cause of comprehending nature in its barest, most fundamental aspect climaxed in the 1963 Nobel Prize for physics. He was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1902 and went to earn his PhD at the Technische Hochschule in Berlin. Wigner who had already rubbed shoulders with legends like Dirac, Jordan, Niels Bohr, Wernher Heisenberg and Albert Einstein, became an American citizen in 1937. From 1938 he was Thomas D Jones Professor of mathematical physics at Princeton University, till his retirement in 1971. During these distinguished decades, Prof. Wigner partic- ipated in the celebrated World War II Manhattan Project at the University of Chicago. Thereafter he directed research and development at the Clinton laboratories. Prof. Wigner has been honoured with an endless string of awe- inspiring awards. From the US medal for merit in 1946 to the National Medal of Science in 1969. Not to mention honorary

Published: Jan 1, 2008

Keywords: Extra Dimension; Nobel Prize; Nobel Laureate; German Journal; Manhattan Project

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