| Eugene Wigner  AKA Eugene Paul Wigner
Born: 17-Nov-1902
Birthplace: Budapest, Hungary
Died: 1-Jan-1995
Location of death: Princeton, NJ
Cause of death: unspecified
Gender: Male
Religion: Jewish
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Physicist Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Law of conservation of parity Wife: Mary Annette Wheeler (m. 1941, one son, one daughter)
Son: David (math professor)
Daughter: Martha
High School: Budapest Lutheran Gymnasium, Budapest, Hungary
University: Dr. Ing., Technische Hochschule Berlin (1925)
Professor: University of Göttingen
Professor: Physics, University of Wisconsin (1936-38)
Professor: Mathematical Physics, Princeton University (1938-71)
Manhattan Project 1942-45
Nobel Prize for Physics 1963 (with J. Hans D. Jensen, Maria Goeppert Mayer)
Enrico Fermi Award 1958
Max Planck Medal 1961
National Medal of Science 1969
American Physical Society VP and President
American Philosophical Society
National Academy of Sciences
American Association for the Advancement of Science
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
JASON
Royal Society
Western Goals Foundation
Naturalized US Citizen 8-Jan-1937
Author of books:
Gruppentheorie und Ihre Anwendung auf die Quantenmechanik der Atomspektren (1931, physics)
Symmetries and Reflections (1967, physics)
The Recollections of Eugene P. Wigner (1992, memoir)
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