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Wigner

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Wig·ner  (wgnr), Eugene Paul 1902-1995.
Hungarian-born American physicist. He shared a 1963 Nobel Prize for his work on symmetry principles in quantum mechanics.
Wigner [ˈwɪgnə]
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(Biographies / Wigner, Eugene Paul (1902-1995) M, USnational of birth: Hungarian, SCIENCE: physicist) Eugene Paul. 1902-95, US physicist, born in Hungary. He is noted for his contributions to nuclear physics: shared the Nobel prize for physics 1963
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Noun1.Wigner - United States physicist (born in Hungary) noted for his work on the structure of the atom and its nucleus (1902-1995)
Eugene Paul Wigner, Eugene Wigner
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