Wigner

The findings also amend research by former Princeton University Professor of Physics Eugene Wigner, who Palmerduca described as one of the most important theoretical physicists of the 20th century.

The novel's final section, a thrilling human-versus-machine matchup, points to what von Neumann had wrought—and reflects the warnings of Labatut's Wigner.

Huang: So Way and Wigner crunched a bunch of numbers and came up with a way to generalize for all fission products.

Schrödinger’s cat, Wigner’s friend and the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen paradox all are examples of thought experiments that have been foundational to contemporary physics.

Other quantum theorists, notably Eugene Wigner and John Wheeler, proposed that our conscious observation of the world determines its properties and even, in a sense, brings it into existence.