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Advances in Nuclear Science and Technology

Festschrift in Honor of Eugene P. Wigner

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  • © 1987

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Editors:
  1. Jeffery Lewins

    1. Fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge University, Cambridge, England

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  2. Martin Becker

    1. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, USA

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Part of the book series: Advances in Nuclear Science & Technology (ANST, volume 19)

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Table of contents (5 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xix
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  2. Eugene Wigner and Nuclear Energy: A Reminiscence

    • Alvin M. Weinberg
    Pages 1-39

  3. The Pius Principle and the Secure Reactor Concepts

    • Kåre Hannerz
    Pages 41-108

  4. PRISM: An Innovative Inherently Safe Modular Sodium Cooled Breeder Reactor

    • P. R. Pluta, F. E. Tippets, R. E. Murata, C. E. Boardman, C. S. Schatmeier, A. E. Dubberley et al.
    Pages 109-203

  5. Generalized Perturbation Theory (GPT) Methods. A Heuristic Approach

    • Augusto Gandini
    Pages 205-380

  6. Some Recent Developments in Finite Element Methods for Neutron Transport

    • R. T. Ackroyd, J. K. Fletcher, A. J. H. Goddard, J. Issa, M. M. R. Williams, J. Wood
    Pages 381-483

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 485-489
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About this book

Our volume in the annual review series on this occasion represents a departure from our usual practice in that it serves as a Festschrift for Eugene Wigner. Dr. Wigner has won many honours in his long, wide ranging and distinguished career spanning so many upheavals in civilized life. The editors and the authors, indeed the whole nuclear engineering community, will wish to join in a modest but further acknowledgement of the contributions he has made to nuclear engineering, not least to the morality and professionalism of nuclear engineering in a year that has raised such international concerns over safety. It suffices to make a bald statement of Eugene Wigner's life and times here, for the first article of the volume is a loving appreciation by his long-time colleague, Alvin Weinberg, an evaluation of his contribution historically during and after the Second World War but equally an account of the philosophy which Wigner provided to the burgeoning profession. Eugene Wigner was born 17th November, 1902 in Budapest, Hungary and his early schooling is described by Dr. Weinberg.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge University, Cambridge, England

    Jeffery Lewins

  • Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, USA

    Martin Becker

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Advances in Nuclear Science and Technology

  • Book Subtitle: Festschrift in Honor of Eugene P. Wigner

  • Editors: Jeffery Lewins, Martin Becker

  • Series Title: Advances in Nuclear Science & Technology

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-5299-0

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Plenum Press, New York 1987

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-306-42543-1Due: 01 June 1987

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4684-5301-0Published: 17 March 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4684-5299-0Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0065-2989

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XX, 490

  • Topics: Particle and Nuclear Physics, Nuclear Energy

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