Eugene Wigner—a tribute on his seventieth birthday
OCT 01, 1972
Next month marks the seventieth birthday of this mathematical physicist who has contributed to so many aspects of our science. A former student of his talks of Wigner and of the significance of his work.
DOI: 10.1063/1.3071046
It was in 1930 that Eugene Wigner joined the staff of Princeton on a halftime basis, at the age of 27, sharing a professorship with John von Neumann. Both were members of that remarkably illustrious group of students who had emerged almost as a team in Budapest and then accepted employment in Germany in the last great days of German science. Leo Szilard once confided to me that the group was really not composed of Hungarians but of Martians in disguise.
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Frederick Seitz. Rockefeller University, New York.
© 1972. American Institute of Physics
