Eugene Wigner
1902 to 1995
10 documented presences
8 places
Quo Fuit places 10 dated presences for Eugene Wigner across 8 places, from 1902 to 1995. Each one keeps the sentence it was taken from and a link to its source.
Eugene Paul Wigner (November 17, 1902 – January 1, 1995) was a Hungarian-American theoretical physicist who also contributed to mathematical physics.Wikipedia, full article · CC BY-SA
Where Eugene Wigner was documented, and when
17 November 1902exact date
Budapestattested
“Wigner Jenő Pál was born in Budapest, Austria-Hungary on November 17, 1902, to middle class Jewish parents, Elisabeth Elsa Einhorn and Antal Anton Wigner, a leather tanner.”
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1926year
Budapestattested
“Wigner returned to Budapest, where he went to work at his father's tannery, but in 1926, he accepted an offer from Karl Weissenberg at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute in Berlin.”
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1926year
Max Planck Institute for Physicsattested
“Wigner returned to Budapest, where he went to work at his father's tannery, but in 1926, he accepted an offer from Karl Weissenberg at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute in Berlin.”
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1926year
Berlinattested
“Wigner returned to Budapest, where he went to work at his father's tannery, but in 1926, he accepted an offer from Karl Weissenberg at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute in Berlin.”
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1938year
Princetonattested
“He therefore accepted an offer in 1938 from Princeton to return there.”
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4 June 1941exact date
Vassar Collegeattested
“"Thoughts of being murdered," he later recalled, "focus your mind wonderfully." On June 4, 1941, Wigner married his second wife, Mary Annette Wheeler, a professor of physics at Vassar College, who had completed her Ph.D.”
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1979year
Princeton Universityattested
“In 1979, Wigner married his third wife, Eileen Clare-Patton (Pat) Hamilton (1915-2010), the widow of physicist Donald Ross Hamilton, the dean of the graduate school at Princeton University, who had died in 1972.”
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1 January 1995exact date
Princeton, New Jerseyattested
“Wigner died of pneumonia at the University Medical Center in Princeton, New Jersey on January 1, 1995.”
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1 January 1995exact date
University Medical Center of Princeton at Plainsboroattested
“Wigner died of pneumonia at the University Medical Center in Princeton, New Jersey on January 1, 1995.”
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1 January 1995exact date
Princetonattested
“Wigner died of pneumonia at the University Medical Center in Princeton, New Jersey on January 1, 1995.”
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Places Eugene Wigner is documented in
Budapest2 presences · 1902 to 1926Princeton2 presences · 1938 to 1995Berlin1 presence · 1926Princeton University1 presence · 1979Princeton, New Jersey1 presence · 1995
Max Planck Institute for Physics1 presence · 1926
University Medical Center of Princeton at Plainsboro1 presence · 1995
Vassar College1 presence · 1941
Other places tied to Eugene Wigner in the record
In each of these, a source puts Eugene Wigner and the place in the same dated sentence without stating that Eugene Wigner was there. They are kept apart from the timeline above for exactly that reason: a mention is not a presence, and Quo Fuit does not quietly promote one into the other.
1919year
Hungarymentioned
“In 1919, to escape the Béla Kun communist regime, the Wigner family briefly fled to Austria, returning to Hungary after Kun's downfall.”
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1919year
Austriamentioned
“In 1919, to escape the Béla Kun communist regime, the Wigner family briefly fled to Austria, returning to Hungary after Kun's downfall.”
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1920year
Budapestmentioned
“After graduating from the secondary school in 1920, Wigner enrolled at the Budapest University of Technical Sciences, known as the Műegyetem.”
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1920year
Budapest University of Technology and Economicsmentioned
“After graduating from the secondary school in 1920, Wigner enrolled at the Budapest University of Technical Sciences, known as the Műegyetem.”
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1920year
Budapest Universitymentioned
“After graduating from the secondary school in 1920, Wigner enrolled at the Budapest University of Technical Sciences, known as the Műegyetem.”
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1921year
Technische Hochschule Berlinmentioned
“He was not happy with the courses on offer, and in 1921 enrolled at the Technische Hochschule Berlin (now Technische Universität Berlin), where he studied chemical engineering.”
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1932year
1934year
Princetonmentioned
“At Princeton in 1934, Wigner introduced his sister Margit "Manci" Wigner to the physicist Paul Dirac, with whom she remarried.”
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8 January 1937exact date
United Statesmentioned
“Wigner became a naturalized citizen of the United States on January 8, 1937, and he brought his parents to the United States.”
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2 December 1942exact date
University of Chicagomentioned
“Wigner was present at a converted rackets court under the stands at the University of Chicago's abandoned Stagg Field on December 2, 1942, when the world's first atomic reactor, Chicago Pile One (CP-1) achieved a controlled nuclear chain…”
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1944 to 1945period
American Philosophical Societymentioned
“Wigner was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1944 and the United States National Academy of Sciences in 1945.”
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1946year
Oak Ridge, Tennesseementioned
“He accepted a position as the director of research and development at the Clinton Laboratory (now the Oak Ridge National Laboratory) in Oak Ridge, Tennessee in early 1946.”
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August 1946month
Los Alamos Laboratorymentioned
“Groves, Jr., had forbidden such experiments in August 1946 after the death of Louis Slotin at the Los Alamos Laboratory.”
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1947year
Princeton Universitymentioned
“Feeling unsuited to a managerial role in such an environment, he left Oak Ridge in 1947 and returned to Princeton University, although he maintained a consulting role with the facility for many years.”
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1950year
1964year
1971year
Documented at the same place, the same year
Alan TuringPrinceton University Department of Mathematics · 1938Paul ErdősPrinceton University Department of Mathematics · 1938Lise MeitnerGermany · 1926Kurt LewinGermany · 1926Johannes IttenGermany · 1926Kurt Georg KiesingerGermany · 1926Horst WesselGermany · 1926Philipp ScheidemannGermany · 1926Raphael LemkinGermany · 1926Emil ArtinGermany · 1926Hannah HöchGermany · 1926
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