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From: ramli@ele.uri.edu (Ramli)
Subject: Eugene Wigner dead
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Time magazine, in its Jan. 16 1995 issue under the
section 'Milestones' has the following:

  Died.  Eugene P. Wigner, 92, physicist; in
  Princeton, NJ.  Like the electrons he contemplated,
  the life of Eugene Wigner revolved around the atom.
  In 1930 the Hungarian immigrant joined the faculty
  of Princeton University, where he developed the
  ideas of energy levels within atoms that would
  eventually earn him a Nobel Prize.  In 1939 he
  urged Albert Einstein to warn President Franklin
  Roosevelt of the threat of a German atom bomb---the
  letter that launched the nuclear age.  During the
  war, Wigner helped develop both the first nuclear
  reactors and the first nuclear bomb.  He later
  became a fervent cold warrior [sic].


ramli.


