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The first year that I truly contributed to physics was 1929. Quantum mechanics had been evolving quite well without my help. So I wondered: What could I do? Where could I concentrate my effort and perhaps produce something original? I realized how much I loved group theory. I had worked with Michael Polanyi on the symmetries of crystal, and these symmetries had suggested group theory.
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© 1992 Andrew Szanton
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Szanton, A. (1992). That Pesty Group Business. In: The Recollections of Eugene P. Wigner. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-6313-0_8
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