Eugene Wigner
Hungarian-American physicist and mathematician (1902–1995)
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Hungarian-American physicist whose symmetry principles reshaped nuclear and particle physics. Won the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physics for work that became foundational to how we understand atoms and their building blocks.
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Eugene Paul Wigner was a Hungarian-American theoretical physicist who also contributed to mathematical physics. He received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1963 "for his contributions to the theory of the atomic nucleus and the elementary particles, particularly through the discovery and application of fundamental symmetry principles".
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