Eugene Wigner was born on November 17, 1902 in Budapest, Hungary. He worked with Enrico Fermi at the University of Chicago’s Metallurgical Laboratory on nuclear chain reactions. Wigner received the Atomic Energy Comission’s Enrico Fermi Prize in 1958. He also shared the 1963 Nobel Prize for physics with Jo Jensen and Marie Goeppert-Mayen, for his work in understanding the nucleus.
