Eugene Wigner
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Nominated for the Nobel Prize in
- Physics 1953, by Gregory Breit
- Physics 1955, by H Messel
- Physics 1957, by Walter Bleakney
- Physics 1957, by Robert Henry Dicke
- Physics 1957, by D Hamilton
- Physics 1957, by A Shenstone
- Physics 1957, by H Smyth
- Physics 1957, by John Archibald Wheeler
- Physics 1957, by M White
- Physics 1958, by Gregory Breit
- Physics 1958, by C Ufford
- Physics 1959, by W Opechowski
- Physics 1960, by Bruno Benedetto Rossi
- Physics 1960, by David Henry Frisch
- Physics 1961, by A.M. Michels
- Physics 1962, by Pekka Jauho
- Physics 1962, by H Groenewold
- Physics 1962, by N Hugenholtz
- Physics 1962, by H Tolhoek
- Physics 1963, by Léon Charles Prudent van Hove
- Physics 1963, by Pekka Jauho
- Physics 1963, by F Kaempffer
- Physics 1963, by T Takabayasi
- Physics 1963, by Victor Frederick Weisskopf
Submitted nominations for the Nobel Prize in
- Physics 1940, nominee: Otto Stern
- Physics 1946, nominee: Percy Bridgman
- Physics 1951, nominee: Willis Eugene Lamb, Jr
- Physics 1958, nominee: Maria Goeppert-Mayer
- Physics 1967, nominee: James Watson Cronin
- Physics 1967, nominee: Hans Albrecht Bethe
- Chemistry 1967, nominee: Michael Polanyi
- Chemistry 1967, nominee: E Taylor
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