Wigner, Eugene
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Nobel Prize in Physics in 1963. 
 
In <u>1960 </wiki/1960></u> , Wigner gave a thought-provoking insight into the power of mathematics in his best-known essay outside physics, now a classic paper, <u><i>The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences </wiki/The_Unreasonable_Effectiveness_of_Mathematics_in_the_Natural_Sciences></i></u> <i>.</i> He argued that biology and cognition could be the origin of physical concepts, as we humans perceive them, and that the happy coincidence that mathematics and physics were so well matched, seemed to be "unreasonable" and hard to explain. 
He developed <u>interest in the <http://www.vedanta-newyork.org/articles/on_sri_ramakrishna.htm></u> <u>Vedanta </wiki/Vedanta></u> philosophy of <u>Hinduism </wiki/Hinduism></u> , particularly with its ideas of the universe as an all pervading <u>consciousness </wiki/Consciousness></u> . In his collection of essays (Symmetries and Reflections- Scientific Essays), he commented "It was not possible to formulate the laws (of quantum theory) in a fully consistent way without reference to consciousness". 
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