The Recollections Of Eugene P. Wigner: As Told To Andrew Szanton
By (Author) Andrew Szanton
INGRAM PUBLISHER SERVICES US
Perseus Books
3rd July 2003
3rd July 2003
United States
General
Non Fiction
Physics
530.092
Paperback
360
Width 140mm, Height 210mm
"A wealth of observations on contemporary mathematicians and physicists, from David Hilbert to Richard Feynman."-- American Scientist . One of the greatest physicists of the 20th century recounts his journey from Hungary and the Nazi invasion to the creation of the first atomic bomb.
Eugene P. Wigner won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1963 for his contributions to the theory of the atomic nucleus and elementary particles. He lived in Berlin in the early 1930s, and later came to America and worked on the Manhattan Project. He died in 1995.