WIGNER JENŐ PÁL -- EUGENE P. WIGNER (1902 Budapest -- 1995 Princeton) studied at the Fasori Lutheran Gymnasium in Budapest, left Hungary to study in Berlin (1921), Ph.D. in Berlin. He worked as engineer in Budapest (1925--1926), then he moved to the U.S. (1930), professor at Princeton University. U.S. citizen (1937). Member of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission (1952--1964). President of the American Physical Society (1956). Member of the U.S. National Academy of Science, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Göttingen Academy, Royal Dutch Academy of Science, Austrian Academy of Science, Royal Society, Hungarian Academy of Sciences. U.S. Medal of Merit from President Truman (1946), Franklin Medal (1950), Fermi Award of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission (1958), Atoms for Peace Award (1960), Franklin Medal, Max Planck Medal of the German Physical Society (1961), U.S. National Science Award (1969), Einstein Medal (1972). President of American Physical Society (1956). Member of the U.S. National Academy of Science, Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Honorary member of the Eötvös Society (1977), Szilard Award of the Hungarian Nuclear Society (1992). Hungarian Order of Merit with Rubins (1994) "as acknowledgement of his scientific carreer and of his outstanding achievements in the enrichment of human values." 1963 Nobel Prize in physics "for his contributions to the theory of the atomic nucleus and elementary particles, particularly through the discovery and application of fundamental symmetry principles." Revisited Hungary several times since 1976. Honorary member of the Eötvös Society (1977). Honorary Ph.D. at Eötvös University (1987) and at 17 other universities. Buried in Princeton, U.S. See also Chain Reaction and biography of Wigner.