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Physics is becoming so unbelievably complex that it is taking longer and longer to train a physicist. It is taking so long, in fact, to train a physicist to the place where he understands the nature of physical problems that he is already too old to solve them.

Eugene Wigner

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Eugene Wigner
Age: 92 †
Born: 1902
Born: November 17
Died: 1995
Died: January 1
Mathematician
Nuclear Physicist
Physicist
Theoretical Physicist
University Teacher
Buda Pest
Eugene Paul Wigner
P.E. Wigner
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