References for Wigner

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  1. Biography in Encyclopaedia Britannica. [Available on the Web]

Books:

  1. J Mehra (ed.), The collected works of Eugene Paul Wigner: Part B. Historical, philosophical and socio-political papers VIII, Socio-political reflections and civil defense (Berlin, 1998).
  2. A S Wightman (ed.), The collected works of Eugene Paul Wigner: Part A. The scientific papers I (Berlin, 1993).
  3. A S Wightman and J Mehra (eds.), The collected works of Eugene Paul Wigner: Part B. Historical, philosophical, and socio-political papers VI, Philosophical reflections and syntheses (Berlin, 1995).
  4. A S Wightman and J Mehra (eds.), The collected works of Eugene Paul Wigner: Part A. The scientific papers II, Nuclear physics (Berlin, 1996).
  5. A S Wightman (ed.), The collected works of Eugene Paul Wigner: Part A. The scientific papers III, Part I. Particles and fields; Part II. Foundations of quantum mechanics (Berlin, 1997).
  6. A S Wightman (ed.), The collected works of Eugene Paul Wigner: Part A. The scientific papers IV, Part I. Physical chemistry; Part II. Solid state physics (Berlin, 1997).
  7. E P Wigner, The recollections of Eugene P Wigner as told to Andrew Szanton (New York , 1992).

Articles:

  1. D J BenDaniel, On Wigner's suggestion of the unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics in physics, in Proceedings of the IV Wigner Symposium, Guadalajara, 1995 (River Edge, NJ, 1996), 211-215.
  2. M G Doncel, L Michel and J Six, Interview with Eugene P Wigner on his scientific activity, Arch. Internat. Hist. Sci. 34 (112) (1984), 177-217.
  3. G G Emch, The philosophy of Eugene P Wigner, Classical and quantum systems (River Edge, NJ, 1993), 2-8.
  4. Y S Kim, Wigner's last papers on spacetime symmetries, in Proceedings of the IV Wigner Symposium, Guadalajara, 1995 (River Edge, NJ, 1996), 1-10.
  5. 13. T S Kuhn and E Wigner, Interviews of Wigner by Kuhn in 1963, The Niels Bohr Archives (Copenhagen, unpublished).
  6. G Marx, Wars and symmetries : Wigner Jenö - Eugene P Wigner, 1902-1995, Symmetry Cult. Sci. 7 (1) (1996), 9-26.
  7. N Mukunda, Eugene Paul Wigner - a tribute, Current Sci. 69 (1995), 375-385.
  8. A Pais, Eugene Paul Wigner, in The genius of science (Oxford, 2000), 330-351.
  9. J Rätz, On Wigner's theorem : remarks, complements, comments, and corollaries, Aequationes Math. 52 (1-2) (1996), 1-9.
  10. A Salam and V F Weisskopf, Tribute to Eugene Paul Wigner, Spacetime symmetries, Nuclear Phys. B Proc. Suppl. 6 (1989), 3-6.
  11. E Vogt, Eugene Paul Wigner: a towering figure of modern physics, Physics today 48 (12) (1995), 40-44.
  12. A S Wightman, Eugene Paul Wigner 1902-1995, Notices Amer. Math. Soc. 42 (7) (1995), 769-771. (A pdf version)
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