The Wigner Medal

The Wigner Medal

The Wigner Medal, is an award designed "to recognize outstanding contributions to the understanding of physics through Group Theory". [cite web|url=http://www.ph.utexas.edu/~bohmwww/wigner/wigner_bylaws.pdf|title=The Wigner Medal Bylaws|publisher=The Group Theory and Fundamental Physics Foundation|accessdate=2007-08-07] The Wigner Medal is administered by The Group Theory and Fundamental Physics Foundation, a publicly supported organization. Donations are tax deductible as provided pursuant to the provisions of Section 170 of the Internal Revenue code, a federal code of the USA.

The award was first presented in 1978 to Eugene Wigner, and was first awarded at the Integrative Conference on Group Theory and Mathematical Physics. [cite web|url=http://www.ph.utexas.edu/~bohmwww/wigner/|title=The Wigner Medal|publisher=The Group Theory and Fundamental Physics Foundation|accessdate=2007-08-07]

List of Awardees

* 1978 Eugene Wigner
* 1978 Valentine Bargmann
* 1980 Israel Gel'fand
* 1982 Louis Michel
* 1984 Yuval Ne'eman
* 1986 Feza Gürsey
* 1988 Isadore Singer
* 1990 Francesco Iachello
* 1992 Julius Wess and Bruno Zumino
* 1996 Victor Kac and Robert Moody
* 1998 Marcos Moshinsky
* 2000 Lochlainn O’Raifeartaigh
* 2002 Harry Jeannot Lipkin
* 2004 Erdal Inonu
* 2006 Susumu Okubo

References

External links

* [http://www.ph.utexas.edu/~bohmwww/wigner/ Wigner Medal Homepage]


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