Eugene Wigner. “Resonance Reactions”, in Physical Review, volume 70 number 9 and 10, November 1 and 15, 1946, pp 606-619 in the issue of pp 577-803.  In the original wrappers, a FINE copy.  This paper (cited 300+times) is reproduced in full in chapter 5, “Nuclear reactions”, in G Stoke’s The Physical Review, the First Hundred Years….  

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_____  with Leonard Eisenbud. “Higher Angular Momenta and Long Range Interaction in Resonance Reactions.”  in Physical Review, 1947, volume 72 number 1,  7pp 29–41. In the original wrappers. Very Good copy. (Noted in the DSB.)

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• “From this beginning Wigner made numerous important cross-disciplinary contributions, first in Europe and later in the United States, where he spent most of his adult life. Wigner demonstrated the importance of symmetry principles in quantum mechanics, an accomplishment that led to the Nobel Prize in Physics for 1963. Wigner made numerous other contributions to a wide variety of fields. In particular, he was one of the first to apply quantum mechanics to the theory of solids and chemical kinetics, led the World War II effort to design the first high-powered reactors and made numerous other contributions to reactor engineering, and pioneered work in the quantum theory of chaos.”
• “Wigner also started and fully developed R-matrix theory for nuclear reactions. His work with R-functions and R-matrices extended beyond direct application to resonance reactions. One result of his continuing fascination with mathematics was work on random matrix elements that led to the founding of quantum chaos theory.”–Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography, vol. 25