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3000 Forint Jenő Wigner
| Issuer | Magyar Nemzeti Bank (National Bank of Hungary) |
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| Year | 2013 |
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| Currency | Forint (1946-date) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | At the center of the oval reverse, a stylized atomic model is depicted in relief, with elliptical electron orbits encircling a nucleus rendered as clustered spheres, evoking Wigner's contributions to nuclear and quantum physics. To the upper left of the atomic device, the denomination '3000 FORINT' is inscribed in two lines, with the mint mark 'BP.' and date '2013' below. Along the lower arc, the country name 'MAGYARORSZÁG' (Hungary) is inscribed as the primary legend, following the oval contour of the coin. |
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Jenő Pál Wigner — born in Budapest in 1902, later Eugene Paul Wigner — shared the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on the theory of the atomic nucleus and elementary particles, particularly his application of symmetry principles. He left Hungary in 1926 and spent most of his career at Princeton, but also contributed foundational work to the Manhattan Project at the University of Chicago's Metallurgical Laboratory. Hungary has issued commemoratives for several of its diaspora scientists, a pattern driven partly by post-communist reclamation of figures the Soviet era treated ambivalently.