Frasi di Eugene Wigner

Eugene Paul Wigner, nato Jenő Pál Wigner , è stato un fisico e matematico ungherese naturalizzato statunitense, vincitore del Premio Nobel per la fisica nel 1963.

Appartiene al gruppo di studiosi che negli anni venti ha rifondato il mondo della fisica. I primi di questa generazione hanno creato la meccanica quantistica. Egli ha fatto parte della seconda ondata di questi fisici ed ha proposto e risolto alcune delle questioni più profonde della fisica del XX secolo. Ha posto le fondamenta della teoria delle simmetrie nella meccanica quantistica e, sul finire degli anni trenta, ha esteso al nucleo atomico le sue ricerche, per le quali ha vinto il Premio Nobel nel 1963.



Ha avuto un importante ruolo anche nel gruppo che, tra il 1939 e il 1945, si è impegnato in un'altra impresa che ha cambiato la storia dei popoli: la costruzione della prima bomba atomica.

Fu un esponente della scuola di famosi scienziati ungheresi, cresciuta a Budapest all'inizio del XX secolo, comprendente Paul Erdős, Edward Teller, John von Neumann e Leó Szilárd. Wikipedia  

✵ 17. Novembre 1902 – 1. Gennaio 1995
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Eugene Wigner Frasi e Citazioni

“Il linguaggio della matematica si rivela irragionevolmente efficace nelle scienze naturali […] un dono meraviglioso che non comprendiamo né meritiamo.”

da The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences, Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics

Eugene Wigner: Frasi in inglese

“A deep sense of humor and an unusual ability for telling stories and jokes endeared Johnny even to casual acquaintances.”

Biographical memoir: "John von Neumann (1903 - 1957)" in Year book of the American Philosophical Society (1958); later in Symmetries and Reflections : Scientific Essays of Eugene P. Wigner (1967), p. 261
Contesto: A deep sense of humor and an unusual ability for telling stories and jokes endeared Johnny even to casual acquaintances. He could be blunt when necessary, but was never pompous. A mind of von Neumann's inexorable logic had to understand and accept much that most of us do not want to accept and do not even wish to understand. This fact colored many of von Neumann's moral judgments. "It is just as foolish to complain that people are selfish and treacherous as it is to complain that the magnetic field does not increase unless the electric field has a curl. Both are laws of nature." Only scientific intellectual dishonesty and misappropriation of scientific results could rouse his indignation and ire — but these did — and did almost equally whether he himself, or someone else, was wronged.

“A mind of von Neumann's inexorable logic had to understand and accept much that most of us do not want to accept and do not even wish to understand.”

Biographical memoir: "John von Neumann (1903 - 1957)" in Year book of the American Philosophical Society (1958); later in Symmetries and Reflections : Scientific Essays of Eugene P. Wigner (1967), p. 261
Contesto: A deep sense of humor and an unusual ability for telling stories and jokes endeared Johnny even to casual acquaintances. He could be blunt when necessary, but was never pompous. A mind of von Neumann's inexorable logic had to understand and accept much that most of us do not want to accept and do not even wish to understand. This fact colored many of von Neumann's moral judgments. "It is just as foolish to complain that people are selfish and treacherous as it is to complain that the magnetic field does not increase unless the electric field has a curl. Both are laws of nature." Only scientific intellectual dishonesty and misappropriation of scientific results could rouse his indignation and ire — but these did — and did almost equally whether he himself, or someone else, was wronged.

“Where in the Schrödinger equation do you put the joy of being alive?”

As quoted by Freeman Dyson from a private conversation, Infinite in All Directions (1988)

“The miracle of the appropriateness of the language of mathematics for the formulation of the laws of physics is a wonderful gift which we neither understand nor deserve.”

Eugene Paul Wigner The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences

"The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences," Communications in Pure and Applied Mathematics, February 1960, final sentence.

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