The Recollections of Eugene P. Wigner |
Contents
PitAPat PitAPat | 1 |
A Tannery Needs Someone Who Knows | 25 |
How Many Such Jobs Exist in Our Country? | 45 |
Albert Einstein Made Me Feel Needed | 63 |
Learning from Einstein | 83 |
Becoming a Physicist | 101 |
That Pesty Group Business | 115 |
If Hitler Says So He Must Be Right | 127 |
Becoming Pleasantly Disagreeable | 181 |
Swimming in Syrup | 197 |
Martians | 211 |
A Squirrel in a Cage | 231 |
Isnt He the One Whose HBomb May Blow Up | 253 |
Thank You Very Much But Why Are | 267 |
The Gold That You Have Will Finally Kill | 287 |
The Subtle Pleasure of Forgetting | 299 |
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