Talk:Eugene Wigner

message: This is indeed a good article (it was added to brilliant prose).  I always get suspicious when an anonymous person posts a good, polished article :-) --but it passes the Google test (meaning it probably wasn't online in exactly these words until now). --LMS
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I'm interested in Prof. Wigner's connection to the Unification Movement of Sun Myung Moon. I know he participated in the science conference sponsored by Rev. Moons International Cultural Foundation. But what was his role?
I hate to rely on memory. Was he a conference chairman, or what?
Here's a quote I picked up on an Altavista search.
:Eugene Wigner, a theoretical physicist, is (or was) on the board of directors of the Committee on the Present Danger. (25) He is a member of the advisory board of Accuracy in Media and was a member of the advisory board of Western Goals Foundation. (36) Accuracy in Media also received some of the $400,000 raised through Charles Wick's efforts at the White House (see Govt Connections). (53) Wigner received a $200,000 "founder's award" from the Rev. Sun Myung Moon--head of the Unification Church--at the 1982 Intl Conference on the Unity of the Sciences (ICUS). ICUS is an offshoot of the Moon-funded Intl Cultural Foundation. (49)
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User:Ed Poor
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This article omits important aspects of his influence on cosmology and the philosophy of mathematics, in particular his most-cited article "The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Physical Sciences," 1960.
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Can someone fix the template - Laureate 97 is too far off to the right. Ludvikus 07:40, 5 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: There is a source saying he was Jewish.  He was clearly born Jewish.  At best it might be said "Jewish: converted to Lutheranism"; anything else violates WP:NOR.--Runcorn 21:04, 18 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Old talk 

message: See Talk:Chicago Pile-1#Wigner missing? --129.49.7.125 (talk) 16:35, 23 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Involvement in self-sustaining fission reaction? 

message: Does a quote by an unreliable source that is about Rev. Moon (not Wigner) does not have place in a section of Quotes about Wigner. --Shagie (talk) 02:21, 4 May 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Failing to see anyone argue the opposite over the past while, I'm going to remove the section as it looks out of place and isn't about Wigner. --Shagie (talk) 06:03, 14 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Quotes about Wigner? 

message: since 2005 a building of the technical university in Berlin is named after him, see http://www.an-morgen-denken.de/tui/05nov/physik.htm Plehn (talk) 05:45, 29 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  can be added 

message: 1. "Wigner was present at a converted squash courts ..."  This is incorrect US English usage -- is it correct in British English?
:No. Thank you for asking. The use of the singular indefinite article a with a regular plural courts is incorrect everywhere. The given citation didn't mention squash courts, but according to this citation, there was just one court there (for rackets, not for squash). This will be fixed momentarily. ChrisJBenson (talk) 00:31, 20 August 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Agreed. Someone had already added a citation (albeit with a meta-syntax error). I'll paraphrase its text to revise the questionable clause, and hopefully fix the citation internal syntax ChrisJBenson (talk) 00:31, 20 August 2013 (UTC)

text: I don't disagree with [User:Chordatum], but I don't disagree with the existing text either. I am not sure whether or how to change this. As I believe the existing text is probably verifiable, I won't change it myself. Others should feel free, though! ChrisJBenson (talk) 00:31, 20 August 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Questions and Suggestions 

message: I am German, and my knowledge and experience of the English language is limited. But to say that he "performed" ground-breaking work in pure mathematics, doesn't that sound like he merely acted it out? --217.226.87.134 (talk) 16:32, 19 May 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Furthermore: How can a cornerstone of the mathematical formulation of quantum mechanics be considered a particular case of a theorem in pure mathematics? --217.226.87.134 (talk) 16:46, 19 May 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  performed work 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: In the text it is mentioned that "They had two children, David Wigner and Martha Wigner Upton" (from the second marriage).
However, in two other places it is mentioned that he had three children. 
For example at the very end:
"He was survived by his wife Eileen (died 2010) and children Erika, David and Martha, and his sisters Bertha and Margit."
Did I miss something?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.130.86.95 (talk) 11:09, 4 February 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Number of children 

message: Mentioning his American citizenship in 1937 seems repetitious - the sentence before says he is Hungarian-American. Also, his American citizenship seems far less important than his Nobel Prize, yet is mentioned first. I feel his citizenship in 1937 should be mentioned elsewhere in the lead where it chronologically makes sense. 71.11.5.2 (talk) 19:56, 20 July 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lead change