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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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

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

Wigner realized that using principles derived from Albert Einstein's theory of relativity, he could describe all the possible elementary particles in the universe, even those that hadn't been discovered yet.

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

Szilard and Wigner, who had left the initial meeting confident that the urgency of research was understood at the highest levels of government, now came face-to-face with the natural sluggishness of the bureaucratic process.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

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