Honors
- Nobel Prize, 1963
- Franklin Medal, 1950
- Atoms for Peace Award, 1959
- Eugene P. Wigner Reactor Physicist Award at the American Nuclear Society.
- Enrico Fermi Award.
- Wigner Fellowship Program at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL).
- "Auditorium at ORNL Renamed in Honor of Eugene P. Wigner" ORNL Press Release, (Jan. 11, 1996).
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