Wigner, Eugene Paul, 1902-1995-
Eugene Paul Wigner papers, 1930s-1980s (bulk 1940s-1970s).
Consists of the papers of Wigner, including correspondence, subject files, writings, and offprints reflecting his long career in physics. While some of the material concerns his work in the early 1930s as a professor at the Technische Hochschule in Berlin, the bulk of the papers relate to the period after Wigner moved to the United States. There is correspondence with other physicists and scientsts, as well as correspondence relating to his receipt of the Enrico Fermi Award, the Max Planck Medal, and the Nobel Prize for Physics. Additionally, there are 15 cassettes of taped interviews with Wigner discussing his entire life, conducted by Andrew Szanton from 1988 to 1989. A later addition includes papers received from Arthur S. Wightman, co-editor of THE COLLECTED WORKS OF EUGENE PAUL WIGNER.
Hungarian-born American physicist. Professor of mathematical physics, Princeton University (1933-1937 and 1939-1971). Staff, Metallurgical Laboratory, University of Chicago (the Manhattan project), atomic bomb research; U.S. Atomic Energy Commission (1952-1957, 1959-1964) and director of the Civil Defense Research Project at Oak Ridge, TN (1964-1965). Nobel Prize for Physics, 1963.
Wigner, Eugene Paul, 1902- -- Archives.
Manhattan Project (U.S.)
Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
Princeton University -- Faculty -- 20th century.
U.S. Atomic Energy Commission
United States. Office of Scientific Research and Development. Metallurgical Laboratory
Atomic bomb -- United States -- 20th century.
Atomic theory.
Civil defense -- United States -- 20th century.
Group theory.
Mathematical physics.
Nobel Prizes.
Nuclear energy -- United States -- 20th century.
Nuclear physics -- United States -- 20th century.
Nuclear reactors -- United States -- Design and construction -- 20th century.
Physics -- Study and teaching -- New Jersey -- Princeton -- 20th century.
Physics -- United States -- 20th century.
Quantum theory.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Science.
Correspondence. aat ftamc aat
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Sound recordings lcgft
Physicists -- New Jersey -- Princeton. lcsh
Hanford Site (Wash.)
Szanton, Andrew. interviewer.
AIP-ICOS
Princeton University. Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, 1 Washington Road, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA