Scientists / Open questions
Eugene Wigner
Quantum mechanics; symmetry; nuclear physics
1963 Nobel Prize in Physics
4 questions
Statistical laws of compound-nucleus resonance spacings and widths and their invariance under the long-range channel interaction
The deeper reason for the charge superselection rule: why nature gives momentum-coherent but not charge-coherent states
Radius-free causality bounds on the energy derivative of scattering phase shifts: removing the arbitrary channel radius from Wigner's 1955 inequality
Experimental realization of the Wigner–Huntington transition to monatomic metallic hydrogen