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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Together, these components form hybrid quasiparticles called Wigner crystal polarons.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 12, 2026

This unusual arrangement is called a Wigner crystal.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 12, 2026

Their measurements revealed interference patterns and regions of Wigner negativity -- clear signs that the states could not be described as ordinary classical mixtures.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 15, 2026

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

After a few minutes of small talk, Szilard and Wigner brought up the sub ject they’d come to discuss.

From "Bomb" by Steve Sheinkin

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