Wigner, Eugene Paul

Eugene Paul Wigner, b. Budapest, Hungary, Nov. 17, 1902, is an 
American physicist known for his work on group theory and as one 
of the early developers of nuclear power. From 1942 to 1948, he 
worked on the MANHATTAN PROJECT; his research on nuclear chain 
reactions aided in the development of the atomic bomb. Wigner 
received the Enrico Fermi Award of the Atomic Energy Commission 
(1953) and the Atoms for Peace Award (1960) and shared the 1963 
Nobel Prize for physics with Jo Jensen and Marie Goeppert-Mayer. 
He wrote Symmetries and Reflections: Scientific Essays (1967).

Jane A. Booth