Wigner in Hungary

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Apr 2002

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American Physical Society, April Meeting, Jointly Sponsored with the High Energy Astrophysics Division (HEAD) of the American As

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Eugene P. Wigner was born into a well-to-do family in Budapest 100 years ago. .He attended the Fasori Lutheran Gymnasium, which educated - among others - John von Neumann, and John Harsanyi,Nobel-laureate in economics. Wigner was influenced by his math teacher, László Rátz who taught calculus in high school. World War I, revolutions and counter/revolutions, kingdom, republic, soviet type council republic followed each other in dizzying sequence, so Wigner decided to continue his university studies in Berlin, where quantum mechanics was discussed and developed in the 1920s. After his Ph.D. Wigner worked in Budapest and in Berlin, and he elaborated the foundations of quantum mechanics based on symmetry principles. He wrote his book on symmetries during a summer holiday in Hungary, and this later brought him the Nobel Prize. Wigner moved to the U.S. in 1930, where he enjoyed the excellent working conditions and recognition. He revisited his homeland only in the 1970s, where his ideas about the future attracted huge audiences at the Academy of Sciences, at universities, and in the Physical Society. He received high honors from his home country - a bit belatedly. The principal focus of his attention was the quantum-mechanical concept of measurement, the role of human consciousness. But even in his last years, in the 1980s, he most enjoyed his visits to high schools - attending physics classes, discussing the future of science in human society with teachers and students.

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