Background
Wigner, Eugene Paul was born on November 17, 1902 in Budapest, Hungary. Arrived in the United States, 1930, naturalized, 1937. Son of Anthony and Elisabeth (Einhorn) Wigner.
Wigner, Eugene Paul was born on November 17, 1902 in Budapest, Hungary. Arrived in the United States, 1930, naturalized, 1937. Son of Anthony and Elisabeth (Einhorn) Wigner.
Chemical Engineer and Doctor Engineering, Technische Hochschule, Berlin, 1925. Doctor of Science (honorary), University Wisconsin, 1949. Doctor of Science (honorary), Washington University, 1950.
Doctor of Science (honorary), Case Institute of Technology, 1956. Doctor of Science (honorary), University Chicago, 1957. Doctor of Science (honorary), Colby College, 1959.
Doctor of Science (honorary), University Pennsylvania, 1961. Doctor of Science (honorary), Thiel College, 1964. Doctor of Science (honorary), University Notre Dame, 1965.
Doctor of Science (honorary), Technische Universität Berlin, 1966. Doctor of Science (honorary), Swarthmore College, 1966. Doctor of Science (honorary), Université de Louvain, Belgium, 1967.
Dr.Jr. (honorary), University Alberta, 1957. Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Yeshiva University, 1963. Degree (honorary), University Liège, 1967.
Degree (honorary), University Illinois, 1968. Degree (honorary), Seton Hall University, 1969. Degree (honorary), Catholic University, 1969.
Degree (honorary), Rockefeller University, 1970. Degree (honorary), Israel Institute of Technology, 1973. Degree (honorary), Lowell University, 1976.
Degree (honorary), Princeton University, 1976. Degree (honorary), University Texas, 1977. Degree (honorary), Clarkson College, 1979.
Degree (honorary), Allegheny College, 1979. Degree (honorary), Gustav Adolphus College, 1981. Degree (honorary), Stevens Institute of Technology, 1982.
Degree (honorary), State University of New York, 1982. Degree (honorary), Louisiana State University, 1985.
Assistant Technische Hochschule, Berlin 1926-1927, University of Gottingen 1927-1928. Lecturer, Technische Hochschule, Berlin 1928-1933. Professor, of Mathematics Physics, Princeton University, on parttime basis 1930-1936.
Professor, of Physics, University of Wisconsin 1936-1938. Thomas D Jones Professor, of Mathematics Physics, Princeton University 1938-1971. Visiting Lecturer, University of Massachusetts 1971, 1972.
Consulting Professor Louisiana State University 1972-1985, also at Ettore Majorana Center 1972, 1976, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, Technion, Haifa 1973, 1981, Rockefeller University 1974, Princeton University 1975, 1976, University of Utrecht 1975, Institute des Hautes Etudes scientifiques 1977, University of Texas at Austin 1978, Free University of Mexico and University of. Director of Research and Development of the Clinton Laboratories, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 1946-1947, as Lorentz Lecturer, Institute Lorentz, Leyden, Neths. 1957; Director 1960-1961).
Foreign; President American Physical Society 1955, President 1956. Director Institute School of Physics, Enrico Fermi Course 1959, Varenna 1963, National Academy Sciences Harbour Project 1963. Director (on leave of absence) Civil Defense Project, Oak Ridge National Laboratory 1964-1965.
Numerous honorary degrees.
Gruppentheorie und ihre Anwendungen auf die Quantenmechanik der Atomspektren 1931, Nuclear Structure (with L. Eisenbud) 1958, Physical Theory of Neutron Chain Reactors (with A. M. Weinberg) 1958, Project Harbour Summary Report (with R. Park) 1964, Symmetries and Reflections 1967, Who Speaks for Civil Defense (editor) 1968, Survival and the Bomb 1969.
Member American Association for the Advancement of Science, Royal Society England (foreign), Royal Netherlands Academy Science and Letters, American Nuclear Society (first recipient Eugene P. Wigner award 1990), American Physical Society (vice president 1955, president 1956), American Mathematics Society, American Association Physics Teachers, American Academy Arts and Sciences, American Philosophical Society, National Academy Sciences, New York Academy Sciences (honorary life member), Austrian Academy Sciences, German Phys Society, Franklin Institute, Academy Science, Gottingen, Germany (correspondent), Hungarian Academy Science (honorary), Austrian Academy Sciences (honorary), HungarianL. Eötvös Physical Society (honorary), Sigma Xi.
Married Amelia Z. Frank, December 23, 1936 (deceased 1937). Married Mary Annette Wheeler, June 4, 1941 (deceased November 1977). Married Eileen C.P. Hamilton, December 29, 1979.