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Eugene Wigner

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Noun1.Eugene Wigner - United States physicist (born in Hungary) noted for his work on the structure of the atom and its nucleus (1902-1995)

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One Nobel laureate, Eugene Wigner, called him "one of the most thoughtful statesmen of science," but another laureate, Isadore Rabi, said of Teller's influence, "It would have been a better world without him.
His early years are notable chiefly for the friendships he formed with three other young Hungarians, all of them destined to become world-famous physicists who aided the Manhattan Project in decisive ways: Eugene Wigner, John von Neumann and Leo Szilard.
Nobel laureate Eugene Wigner and others suggested how dilute clouds of so-called conduction electrons, which roam freely in a metal, might become ordered and generate magnetism.
 
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