Wigner 111 - Colourful and Deep

Session

Night Cruise on the River Danube

13 Nov 2013, 18:00

Ceremonial Hall (Díszterem) (Hungarian Academy of Sciences)

74. Eugene P. Wigner's Wisdom

Prof. István Hargittai

13/11/2013, 18:30

Eugene P. Wigner had a decisive impact on my scientific career. We first exchanged letters in 1964; my first ever publication in 1964 was a response to one of his papers. In 1969, we met, and he gave me extensive tutorials about the utilization of the symmetry concept in physics and chemistry. Wigner was one of the five so-called „Martians,” a loosely defined group of world-renowned...