Wigner Magazine

Wigner Photos

• Wigner at home. Patrica Eileen and Eugene Paul Wigner at their house in Princeton (1991). Wigner's House, 8 Ober Road, Princeton, New Jersey, U.S.A.

• Parents
  1. with his Parents and Sisters
  2. First wife. Wigner met her he was at the University of Wisconsin (Madison, 1934-1939), but she died three months after they got married.
  3. with his Second Wife, Mary Wheeler Wigner, and their children, David and Martha. Another family photo. In 1995, Wigner was burried next to his second wife at the Princeton Cemetry.
  4. Granddaughters: Margaret(L), Mary (R)
• Wigner's brother-in-law: Paul A. M. Dirac's wife was Wigner's sister. Photo courtesy of the AIP Meggers Gallery of Nobel Laureates.
• Nobel Prize in Physics (1963).

• with Edward Teller.
  1. Wigner's Friends. Wigner's Hungarian friends in the United States.
  2. Budapest Quartet
  3. Wigner's bust with that of John von Neumann in the main hall of Budapest Evangelical High School.
• Budapest Evangelical, Wigner's High School in Budapest.

• Max Volmer Institute: Wigner studied chemical engineering at the Technical University of Berlin. He did his research at the Max Volmer Institute. Wigner met Einstein while studying at this University.
• Wigner and Einstein, portrait by Bulent Atalay (1978).
• Wigner's Office at Princeton, on the second floor of (old) Fine Hall, which now is called Jones Hall. Einstein's office was there before 1945.
• Wigner's Office on the second floor of Jadwin Hall (Princeton University).
• One Wigner admirer next to Wigner's portraint in Jadwin Hall (Princeton University 1999).

• Wigner asking a question at a seminar, presumably in the early 1950s. Courtesy of Dieter Brill.
• Sharp. Wigner is an excessively polite person, but he could be as sharp as this photo when physics comes. This photo is hanging in the physics building of the Univ. of Pecs (Hungary).
• Wigner with Students at Princeton. These photos were taken in 1957. Steve Weinberg is in one of the photos. Courtesy of Dieter Brill.

• The First International Wigner Symposium, held at the University of Maryland in 1988. Wigner talking at the Banquet.
  1. Hungarian Academy of Sciences. During the banquet, Wigner was awarded a membership of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences by Ambassador Wenzel Hazi representing the President of the People's Republic of Hungary.
  2. John A. Wheeler with Suzanna Misner. Standing: Michael Fisher, William Kirwan, and Chuan Sheng Liu. Kirwan at that time was the vice president of the Univ. of Maryland. One year later, he later became the president of the University. He is now the president of Ohio State University.
  3. Gell-Mann: Wigner and Bardeen listening to Gell-Mann during the 1st Wigner Symposium (1988).
  4. Steven Weinberg, surrounded by young admirers.
  5. Fitch and Bardeen, Val Fitch and John Bardeen. Bardeen appears to be very happy.
  6. Bloembergen, Nicholaas Bloembergen and Chi Hee Lee who was Bloembergen's student at Harvard.
  7. Lamb and Weisskopf, Willis Lamb and Victor Weisskopf.
  8. George Snow and Sadao Oneda. Snow was Wigner's student at Princeton.
  9. Dieter Brill with Wigner and Kim, during the Symposium reception.
  10. Teplitz, Doris and Vigdor Teplitz.
  11. Wigner and Biedenharn, during the 1st Wigner Symposium (1998). Larry Biedenharn was a tall man.
  12. Wigner and Feza Gursey.
  13. John Bardeen. Wigner's last confrontation with John Bardeen.
  14. Wigner and John Tall (president of the University of Maryland).
  15. Gell-Mann and Ne'eman, Murray Gell-Mann and Yuval Ne'eman, the inventors of the SU(3) symmetry.
  16. Wigner with Francis Narcovich and Victor Weisskopf, Wigner's youngest and oldest students respectively.
  17. Howard Brandt. He has a clear understanding of Wigner's physics and its impact on our daily life. He came to the Symposium banquet with his wife.
  18. One of the Principal Organizers of the First International Wigner Symposium

• Wigner 1986 Wigner used to come to the Univ. of Maryland often, and this photo was taken by Joan Hamilton in 1986 after a breakfast at the presidential mansion. From left: Y. S. Kim, Deborah Toll, Wigner, and John Toll who was the president of the University. John Toll received his PhD degree from Princeton in 1952.

• Frederick Seitz with Y. S. Kim (Princeton 2002). Seitz was Wigner's first PhD student at Princeton. Seitz and Wigner created a new branch of physics now called "condensed matter physics."

• Bargmann, Michel, and Wigner during the 13th International Colloquium on Group Theoretical Methods in Physics held at the Univ. of Maryland in May of 1984.

• Group Contractions, Three group contrationists, E. Inonu, N. Gromov, and Y. S. Kim (Istanbul, 1997).

• Last Lunch, Wigner's last lunch with Kim at a seafood restaurant in Princeton (1991).

• Birth Place, Wigner's Place in Budapest (Hungary). He was born on November 17, 1902 and left us on January 1, 1995.

• Martha Upton (Wigner's daughter) with Y. S. Kim (Princeton 2002).

• Kim, Seitz, Upton, and Taylor (Princeton 2002).

• Your Picture with Wigner. Please send us your photo with Wigner.