Oral history interview with Eugene Paul Wigner, 1984 Apr. 12.

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Oral history interview with Eugene Paul Wigner, 1984 Apr. 12.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/63283818

Wigner begins by describing how he came to Princeton (in early 1931). He mentions some of his students, including Fred Seitz, John Bardeen, Conyers Herring, and Leonard Eisenbud. Wigner describes how he officially became a physicist--his Ph.D. was in chemical engineering. He tells of some of his friends and colleagues including E. U. Condon, Paul Dirac, and, at some length, John von Neumann.

Transcript : 10 p.

University of Minnesota, Minneapolis

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University of Minnesota, Minneapolis

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