Professor Eugene Paul Wigner, an American Jewish nuclear physicist, of Princeton University, was named one of three physicists to share the Nobel Prize in Physics for 1963. Another winner is Dr. Maria Goeppert Mayer of the University of California.
Professor Wigner, 61, was born in Germany. He came to Princeton in 1930 and became an American citizen seven years later. Dr. Mayer was born in Katowice, Poland and became an American citizen in 1933. She is married to Dr. Joseph Mayer, professor of chemical physics at the University of California. The two Americans will share the $51,000 prize with Prof. J. Hans D. Jensen, of the University of Heidelberg, Germany.
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