Manfred Eigen

Manfred Eigen
Born9 May 1927
Died6 February 2019(2019-02-06) (aged 91)
NationalityGerman
Scientific career
FieldsBiophysical chemistry

Manfred Eigen (9 May 1927 – 6 February 2019) was a German biophysical chemist who won the 1967 Nobel Prize in Chemistry alongside Ronald George Wreyford Norrish and George Porter. He was known for his studies of extremely fast chemical reactions induced in response to very short pulses of energy.

He was born in Bochum, Germany. Eigen died on 6 February 2019 in Berlin at the age of 91.

He was elected a member of the Academia Europaea in 1989.

References

  1. ↑ "Manfred Eigen Festschrift: special issue dedicated to Professor Manfred Eigen on the occasion of his 60th birthday", Biophys. Chem., vol. 26, no. 2–3 (published May 9, 1987), pp. 101–390, 1987, PMID 3300802
  2. ↑ Schlögl, R W (1997), "To Manfred Eigen on his 70th birthday", Biophys. Chem., vol. 66, no. 2–3 (published Jun 30, 1997), pp. 71–3, doi:10.1016/S0301-4622(97)00075-6, PMID 17029872
  3. ↑ Dainton, F.; Thrush, B. A. (1981). "Ronald George Wreyford Norrish. 9 November 1897-7 June 1978". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 27 (27): 379–424. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1981.0016. ISSN 0080-4606. S2CID 72584163.
  4. ↑ Fleming, G. R.; Phillips, D. (2004). "George Porter KT OM, Lord Porter of Luddenham. 6 December 1920 - 31 August 2002: Elected F.R.S. 1960". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 50: 257–283. doi:10.1098/rsbm.2004.0017. ISSN 0080-4606. S2CID 70573931.
  5. ↑ "Manfred Eigen, 1967 Nobel Chemistry Laureate, Dies at 91". The New York Times. 7 February 2019. Archived from the original on 9 February 2019. Retrieved 7 February 2019.
  6. ↑ Merlot, Julia (7 February 2019). "Der Bezwinger des Unmessbaren". Der Spiegel (in German). Hamburg. Retrieved 7 February 2019.
  7. ↑ "Göttingen Nobel Laureate Manfred Eigen has died". The Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry. Göttingen. 7 February 2019. Archived from the original on 12 December 2021. Retrieved 7 February 2019.
  8. ↑ "Manfred Eigen". Academia Europaea. Archived from the original on 28 March 2019.