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Eugene Paul
Wigner, born in Budapest, Hungary, on November 17, 1902, naturalized a citizen
of the United States on January 8, 1937, has been since 1938 Thomas D. Jones Professor
of Mathematical Physics at Princeton University - he retired in 1971. His formal
education was acquired in Europe; he obtained the Dr. Ing. degree at the Technische
Hochschule Berlin. Married in 1941 to Mary Annette Wheeler, he is the father of
two children, David and Martha. His son, David, is teaching mathematics at the
University of California in Berkeley. His daughter, Martha, is with the Chicago
area transportation system, an organization endeavoring to improve the internal
transportation system of that city. Dr.Wigner worked on the Manhattan Project
at the University of Chicago during World War II, from 1942 to 1945, and in 1946-1947
became Director of Research and Development at Clinton Laboratories. Official
recognition of his work in nuclear research includes the U. S. Medal for Merit,
presented in 1946; the Enrico Fermi Prize (U.S.A.E.C.) awarded in 1958; and the
Atoms for Peace Award, in 1960. Dr. Wigner holds the Medal of the Franklin Society,
the Max Planck Medal of the German Physical Society, the George Washington Award
of the American-Hungarian Studies Foundation (1964), the Semmelweiss Medal of
the American-Hungarian Medical Association (1965), and the National Medal of Science
(1969). He has received honorary degrees from the University of Wisconsin, Washington
University, Case Institute, University of Alberta ( Canada ), University of Chicago,
Colby College, University of Pennsylvania, Yeshiva University, Thiel College,
Notre Dame University, Technische Universität Berlin, Swarthmore College,
Université de Louvain, Université de Liège, University of
Illinois, Seton Hall, Catholic University and The Rockefeller University. He is
a past vice- president and president of the American Physical Society, of which
he remains a member. He is a past member of the board of directors of the American
Nuclear Society and still a member; he holds memberships in the American Philosophical
Society, the American Mathematical Society, the American Association of Physics
Teachers, the National Academy of Science, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences,
the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences and Letters, the American Association
for the Advancement of Science, the Austrian Academy of Sciences, he is corresponding
member of the Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften, Gottingen, and foreign member of
the Royal Society of Great Brittain. He was a member of the General Advisory Committee
to the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission from 1952-1957, was reappointed to this committee
in 1959 and served on it until 1964.
From Nobel Lectures, Physics 1963-1970, Elsevier Publishing Company, Amsterdam, 1972
This autobiography/biography was written at the time of the award and later published in the book series Les Prix Nobel/Nobel Lectures. The information is sometimes updated with an addendum submitted by the Laureate. To cite this document, always state the source as shown above.
Eugene Wigner died on January 1, 1995.
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