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Wigner, Eugene Paul, 1902-1995- interviewee.
Oral history interview with Eugene Paul Wigner, 1984 April 12.
Wigner begins by describing how he came to Princeton (in early 1931). He mentions some of his students, including Fred Seitz, John Bardeen, Conyers Herring, and Leonard Eisenbud. Wigner describes how he officially became a physicist--his Ph.D. was in chemical engineering. He tells of some of his friends and colleagues including E. U. Condon, Paul Dirac, and, at some length, John von Neumann.
Hungarian-born American physicist, Wigner worked in the early 1930s as a professor at the Technishe Hochschule in Berlin, where he studied the quantum mechanical interpretation of atomic spectra which resulted in the publication of his book GRUPPENTHEORIE UND IHRE ANWENDUNG AUF DIE QUANTENMECHANIK DER ATOMSPEKTREN (1931), later translated and published as GROUP THEORY (1951), now a classic in its field. He moved to the United States, where he became professor of mathematical physics at Princeton University from 1933-1937 and from 1937-1938 at the University of Wisconsin; he then returned to Princeton, where he worked until 1971, becoming professor emeritus. He died 1995.
Von Neumann, John, 1903-1957.
Princeton University -- Faculty.
Princeton University -- Graduate students.
Physics -- History.
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Aspray, William, interviewer.
Tucker, Albert W. (Albert William), 1905- interviewer.
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Princeton University. Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript Library. 65 Olden Street, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA
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