Books in the The Collected Works series

Among the founding fathers of modern quantum physics few have contributed to our basic understanding of its concepts as much as E.P. Emch edited most of those papers and wrote a very helpful introduction into Wigner's contributions to Natural Philosophy.

Eugene Wigner is one of the very few scientists that maysafely be describedas creators of 20th-century physics. Weinberg surveys Wigner's contributions tonuclear-reaction physics and nuclear engineering, at thesame time giving a glimpse of the early history ofnuclear-reactor technology.