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Wigner, Eugene Paul
US (Hungarian-born) physicist
immigrated to US 1930 (naturalized US citizen 1937)
introduced group theory into quantum mechanics
wrote "Group Theory and Its Application to Atomic Spectra" 1931
prover and eponym of Wigner's theorem 1932
president of American Physical Society 1956
Nobel Prize in Physics 1963
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