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category: "Nuclear Scientists & Programs"
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- Person
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- Nuclear
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- Physicist
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- Israel
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summary: "Eugene Wigner was a Hungarian-American theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate."
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born: 1902-11-17
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died: 1995-01-01
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location: "Budapest, Hungary"
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Eugene Wigner was a Hungarian-American theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate. He, along with [[I. I. Rabi]], was asked by the Israelis to visit the still-incomplete reactor at [[Dimona]] sometime early in 1961. They reported seeing no evidence of a weapons facility, and President [[John F. Kennedy]] expressed satisfaction with their conviction that the reactor was designed for peaceful purposes.[^1]
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### Footnotes
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[^1]: Hersh, Seymour M. *The Samson Option: Israel's Nuclear Arsenal and American Foreign Policy*. Random House, 1991. Chapter 8.
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