Eugene Wigner
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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 t
Wigner in 1963
Werner Heisenberg and Eugene Wigner (1928)
Wigner receiving the Medal for Merit for his work on the Manhattan Project from Robert P. Patterson (left), March 5, 1946
The Chianti fiasco purchased by Wigner to help celebrate the first self-sustaining, controlled chain reaction. It was signed by the participants.
John Bardeen
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John Bardeen was an American physicist. He is the only person to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics twice: first in 1956 with William Shockley and Walter Brattain for their invention of the transis
Eugene Wigner
…Thesis Bildung und Zerfall von Molekülen (1925) Doctoral advisor Michael Polanyi Other academic advisors László Rátz Richard Becker Doctoral students John Bardeen Victor Frederick Weisskopf Marcos Moshinsky Abner Shimony Edwin Thompson Jaynes Frederick Seitz Conyers Herring Frederick Tappert J. O. Hirschfelder…
Bardeen in 1956
Bardeen (left), William Shockley, and Walter Brattain at Bell Labs, 1948
A replica of the first transistor, built in 1997 by Lucent Technologies to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the invention of the point-contact transistor
A commemorative plaque at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign remembering John Bardeen and the theory of superconductivity