Download or read book The Recollections of Eugene P. Wigner written by Eugene Paul Wigner and published by Springer. This book was released on 1992-01-01 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This memoir, a fruitful collaboration between Eugene Wigner and writer Andrew Szanton, reveals a story by turns endearing, painful, and ultimately triumphant. A witness to many of the changes of the twentieth century, Wigner grew up amid the political turmoil of Hungary. He later experienced the Berlin of the early 1930s as Hitler rose to power. During World War II, he took an active role in the Manhattan Project, the building of the world's first atomic bomb. In his recollections, he conveys the exultation of observing the first successfully controlled nuclear chain reaction.