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Eugene Wigner
a Hungarian-American theoretical physicist and
mathematician. He received the Nobel Prize in Physics in
1963 "for his contributions to the theory of the atomic
nucleus and the elementary particles, particularly through
the discovery and application of fundamental symmetry
principles".
The Wigner–Seitz cell around a lattice point is defined as Wigner–Seitz primitive cell.
the locus of points in space that are closer to that lattice point
than to any of the other lattice points.
The Wigner–Seitz cell of the Face- The Wigner–Seitz cell of the Body-
centered cubic lattice is a rhombic centered cubic lattice is a truncated
dodecahedron. octahedron.
