Eugene Paul Wigner (Hungarian: Wigner Jenő Pál, pronounced [ˈviɡnɛr ˈjɛnøː ˈpaːl]; November 17, 1902 – January 1, 1995) was a Hungarian-American theoretical...
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Wigner's friend is a thought experiment in theoretical quantum physics, first published by the Hungarian-American physicist Eugene Wigner in 1961, and...
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Margit Wigner, a sister of physicist Eugene Wigner and a divorcee. Dirac raised Margit's two children, Judith and Gabriel, as if they were his own. Paul and...
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6-j symbol (redirect from Wigner 6j-symbol)
Wigner's 6-j symbols were introduced by Eugene Paul Wigner in 1940 and published in 1965. They are defined as a sum over products of four Wigner 3-j symbols...
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other a Clebsch–Gordan coefficient. The name derives from physicists Eugene Wigner and Carl Eckart, who developed the formalism as a link between the symmetry...
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Wigner's theorem, proved by Eugene Wigner in 1931, is a cornerstone of the mathematical formulation of quantum mechanics. The theorem specifies how physical...
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distribution Wigner surmise Wigner fusion Wigner Research Centre for Physics in Budapest, which houses the Wigner Data Center. Eugene P. Wigner Reactor Physicist...
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the same discipline at Princeton University under Nobel Laureate Eugene Paul Wigner. In the 1950s he researched nuclear reactions and the structure of...
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3-j symbol (redirect from Wigner 3-j symbol)
In quantum mechanics, the Wigner's 3-j symbols, also called 3-jm symbols, are an alternative to Clebsch–Gordan coefficients for the purpose of adding angular...
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1957 – Niels Bohr 1958 – George C. de Hevesy 1959 – Leó Szilárd and Eugene Paul Wigner 1960 – Alvin M. Weinberg and Walter Henry Zinn 1961 – Sir John Cockcroft...
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from the original on January 20, 2019. Retrieved January 19, 2019. Eugene Paul Wigner Papers Archived February 24, 2008, at the Wayback Machine Princeton...
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Neumann Lecture". brown.edu. "Ingrid Daubechies". agnesscott.edu. "Eugene Paul Wigner". mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk. "Dr. Kiyoshi Ito receives Gauss Prize"...
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The Wigner–Seitz cell, named after Eugene Wigner and Frederick Seitz, is a primitive cell which has been constructed by applying Voronoi decomposition...
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In physics, Wigner's 9-j symbols were introduced by Eugene Paul Wigner in 1937. They are related to recoupling coefficients in quantum mechanics involving...
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1992, pp. 86–87. Wigner, Eugene (2001). "John von Neumann (1903–1957)". In Mehra, Jagdish (ed.). The Collected Works of Eugene Paul Wigner: Historical, Philosophical...
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J. Ernest Wilkins Jr. (redirect from Wigner-Wilkins Spectra)
as "the Negro Genius" in the national media. Wilkins and Eugene Wigner co-developed the Wigner-Wilkins approach for estimating the distribution of neutron...
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280. von Neumann, J.; Wigner, E.P. (1993). "Über merkwürdige diskrete Eigenwerte". The Collected Works of Eugene Paul Wigner (in German). Vol. 30. pp...
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• Reprinted in Wightman, A.S., ed. (1993). The Collected Works of Eugene Paul Wigner. Vol. A. Springer. pp. 84–90. doi:10.1007/978-3-662-02781-3_7....
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Presbyterian theologian Canvass White (1790–1834), engineer and inventor Eugene Paul Wigner (1902–1995), Nobel Prize-winning physicist John Witherspoon (1723–1794)...
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Harvard Crimson". www.thecrimson.com. Retrieved 28 January 2018. Eugene Paul Wigner Papers Archived 24 February 2008 at the Wayback Machine Princeton...
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Goeppert-Mayer, Nobel laureate in 1963 with J. Hans D. Jensen and Eugene Paul Wigner. Goeppert-Mayer and Jensen were awarded their prize "for their discovery...
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introduction. Cambridge: Cambridge university press. ISBN 978-0-521-59284-0. Eugene Paul Wigner; Dirac, P. A. M. (1951). "On the statistical distribution of the widths...
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Heinrich Westphal (1882–1978), physicist Eugene Wigner (1902–1995), Hungarian-American physicist, discovered the Wigner-Ville-distribution, Nobel prize winner...
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known for educating such people as John von Neumann and Nobel laureate Eugene Wigner. He was a legendary teacher of "Budapest-Fasori Evangélikus Gimnázium"...
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Academic, 1996, ISBN 0-7923-4044-2 Louis de Broglie, P A M Dirac, Eugene Paul Wigner, A O Barut, Alwyn Van der Merwe, Jean-Pierre Vigier: Quantum, space...
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Katharine Way, Research Assistant Edgar Francis Westrum, Jr., Chemist Eugene Paul Wigner, Physicist Ernest J. Wilkins, Jr., Associate Physicist Hoylande Young...
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broadcast by the BBC in the United Kingdom. Nobel Prizes Physics – Eugene Paul Wigner, Maria Goeppert-Mayer, J. Hans D. Jensen Chemistry – Karl Ziegler...
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ordinarius) Julius Weisbach — Mathematics Hermann Weyl — Mathematics Eugene Paul Wigner — Physics — Nobel Prize in Physics 1963 Wilhelm Wien — (Student) —...
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Crimson, 1976-08-10. "ICUS". 9 March 2016. Retrieved 19 January 2019. Eugene Paul Wigner Papers Archived 2008-02-24 at the Wayback Machine Princeton University...
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1098/rsbm.2012.0032. Seitz, F.; Vogt, E.; Weinberg, A. M. (2000). "Eugene Paul Wigner. 17 November 1902 -- 1 January 1995: Elected For.Mem.R.S. 1970". Biographical...
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