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Eugene P. Wigner: Is Mankind Bright Enough to Survive? |
| Section: NATURAL SCIENCE / SCIENTISTS: PAST AND PRESENT |
| Author: John Potjewyd |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 2/1/1986 |
| Size: 4,577 Words, 24,515 Characters |
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Anyone meeting Professor Eugene P. Wigner will be struck by his sincerity and deep humility. Life is important to him, and he expects everyone whom he meets to invest the same concentration in the moment as he does.
Wigner is the Thomas D. Jones Emeritus Professor of Mathematical Physics at Princeton University. In 1963 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in physics for improving and extending the methods of quantum mechanics.
Recognized as one of the greatest living physicists, Wigner resides in Princeton, New Jersey, close to the Institute for Advanced Studies where so many of the great physicists have worked. It was Wigner, together with his high school friend, John von Neumann, who first brought quantum theory to Princeton in 1930.
Having recently celebrated his 83rd bi...
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... hard to predict a miracle and the future is uncertain. The proverb is "the future is uncertain" says the optimist." That's what we are saying now.
Q: If there were one statement you would like for people to remember, what would it be?
W: A very difficult question. I hope that the increasing development of welfare and easy life will have only good consequences and no bad ones.
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