Eugene Wigner

Eugene Paul Wigner was a Hungarian-American theoretical physicist and mathematician who won a Nobel prize for his contributions to the theory of the atomic nucleus and elementary particles. He was born in Pest, part of the Hungarian capital, on 17 November 1902 and died in Princeton, New Jersey, on 1 January 1995. His father directed a leather-tanning factory, and his training as an engineer proved valuable background for his work on nuclear fission on the Manhattan Project at the University of Chicago from 1942 to 1945. He received the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1963, and the presentation speech singled out his finding in 1933 about the forces between nucleons.