Wigner

American

[wig-ner] / ˈwɪg nər /

noun

Eugene Paul, 1902–95, U.S. physicist, born in Hungary: Nobel Prize 1963.

Wigner British

/ ˈwɪɡnə /

noun

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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While studying the generalized Wigner crystal, the team uncovered another surprising state of matter.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 17, 2025

This hybrid phase is called a generalized Wigner crystal, and the team's findings appear in npj Quantum Materials, a Nature publication.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 17, 2025

The findings also amend research by former Princeton University Professor of Physics Eugene Wigner, who Palmerduca described as one of the most important theoretical physicists of the 20th century.

From Science Daily ● May 23, 2024

Huang: So Way and Wigner crunched a bunch of numbers and came up with a way to generalize for all fission products.

From Scientific American ● Aug. 24, 2023

Something with a P. About an hour after leaving Patchogue, Wigner and Szilard pulled into Peconic.

From "Bomb" by Steve Sheinkin

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