Oral history interview with Eugene P. Wigner
1987-05-12
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Oral history interview with Eugene P. Wigner
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1987-05-12
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Charles Babbage Institute
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Wigner talks about his association with John von Neumann during their school years in Hungary. He discusses their graduate studies in Berlin and their appointments to Princeton in 1930. Wigner discusses von Neumann's contributions to the theory of quantum mechanics, Wigner's own work in this area, and von Neumann's interest in the application of theory to the atomic bomb project.
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Transcript, 17 pp.
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Eugene Paul Wigner, OH 130. Oral history interview by William Aspray, 12 May 1987, Princeton, New Jersey. Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. http://purl.umn.edu/107714
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Wigner, Eugene Paul, 1902-. (1987). Oral history interview with Eugene P. Wigner. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/107714.
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