Wigner

American  

[wig-ner] / ˈwɪg nər /

noun

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

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Wigner British  

/ ˈwɪɡnə /

noun

1. 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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Example Sentences

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

From Science Daily

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

The novel's final section, a thrilling human-versus-machine matchup, points to what von Neumann had wrought—and reflects the warnings of Labatut's Wigner.

From Scientific American

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

Schrödinger’s cat, Wigner’s friend and the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen paradox all are examples of thought experiments that have been foundational to contemporary physics.

From Scientific American