In the 1930's, he showed that the strong nuclear force has very short range, and Fermi used some of his calculations when building the first nuclear reactor in Chicago.
Along with Gregory Breit, this man developed a formula which describes cross-sections for resonant nuclear reactions, and his namesake effect is a rapid rise in the temperature in a nuclear reactor pile when materials swell and release large amounts of energy when under particle bombardment. In the 1930's, he showed that the strong nuclear force has very short range, and Fermi used some of his calculations when building the first nuclear reactor in Chicago. FTP, identify this Hungarian-born American physicist who introduced the notion of parity into nuclear physics, and who won the Nobel Prize in 1963.
Along with Gregory Breit, this man developed a formula which describes cross-sections for resonant nuclear reactions, and his namesake effect is a rapid rise in the temperature in a nuclear reactor pile when materials swell and release large amounts of energy when under particle bombardment.
Eugene Wigner