Eugene Wigner

Eugene Paul "E. P." Wigner (born Wigner Pál Jenő, 1902–1995) was a Hungarian physicist and mathematician who became an American citizen and participated in the Manhattan Project.

Sam Yeager couldn't help but contrast men like Wigner and his colleagues, generally "dumpy foreigners with funny accents," with the "near-supermen" scientists found in the science fiction he read.