Oral history interview with Eugene Paul Wigner, 1987 May 12.

  1. Resources
  2. View Resource

ArchivalResource

Oral history interview with Eugene Paul Wigner, 1987 May 12.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/63309517

Wigner talks about his association with John von Neumann during their school years in Hungary. He discusses their graduate work in Berlin and their simultaneous appointments to Princeton in 1930, von Neumann's contribution to the theory of quantum mechanics, Wigner's own interest in this area, and von Neumann's interest in the application of theory to the atomic bomb project.

Computer data (1 file : 25K)

University of Minnesota, Minneapolis

Information

SNAC Resource ID: 7886058

University of Minnesota, Minneapolis

Related Entities

There are 3 Entities related to this resource.

Wigner, Eugene Paul, 1902-1995

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w68g8ndd (person)

Physicist. From the description of Reminiscences of Eugene Paul Wigner : oral history, 1964. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122419196 From the description of Oral history interview with Eugene Paul Wigner, 1984 Apr. 12. (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis). WorldCat record id: 63283818 From the description of Oral history interview with Eugene Paul Wigner, 1987 May 12. (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis). WorldCat record id: ...

Von Neumann, John, 1903-1957

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6v69kqh (person)

John (Johann) Louis von Neumann (1903-1957) was born in Budapest and showed early signs of being a child prodigy. He entered the University of Budapest in 1921, but also attended the University of Berlin and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology before obtaining a degree in chemical engineering in 1925. He earned his Doctorate in Mathematics from the University of Budapest in 1927. After graduation, he worked at the University of Berlin before becoming a visiting professor to Princeton from ...

Aspray, William,

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6ws99bf (person)