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Document 33666
EUGENE P. WIGNER. Signature: "Eugene P Wigner/March 30,
1970", 5x3 card. Typed caption above signature. Together with fellow
Hungarian expatriate physicist Leo Szilard, Eugene P. Wigner (1902-1995)
persuaded Albert Einstein in 1939 to write his letter to President Roosevelt
about the potential to produce vast amounts of energy from uranium. Wigner wrote
the English translation of that letter delivered to FDR. Wigner was awarded the
1963 Nobel Prize in Physics "for his contributions to the theory of the
atomic nucleus and the elementary particles, particularly through the discovery
and application of fundamental symmetry principles". Date stamp on verso shows
through faintly in blank lower margin. Fine condition.
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