Work : New Career 1964 (Director of the Max Planck Institute)
Work : Prize 1967 (Nobel Prize in Chemistry)
Death:Death, Cause unspecified 6 February 2019 (Age 91) chart Placidus Equal_H.
German biophysical chemist who won the 1967 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for work on measuring fast chemical reactions, sharing the prize with Ronald George Wreyford Norrish and George Porter. Eigen received his PhD at the University of Göttingen in 1951 under supervision of Arnold Eucken. From 1953 on he worked at the Max Planck Institute for Physical Chemistry in Göttingen, becoming its director in 1964 and joining it with the Max Planck Institute for Spectroscopy to become the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry. Eigens name is linked with the theory of quasispecies, the error threshold, error catastrophe, Eigens paradox, and the chemical hypercycle, the cyclic linkage of reaction cycles as an explanation for the self-organization of prebiotic systems, which he described with Peter Schuster in 1977. He died on 6 February 2019 at the age of 91. Link to Wikipedia biography Read less
Eigen Manfred is a German mathematician who has made significant contributions to the field of numerical analysis. He is best known for his work on the finite element method, which is a widely used technique for solving partial differential equations. Eigen Manfred has also made important contributions to the development of other numerical methods, such as the conjugate gradient method and the Lanczos algorithm.
Eigen Manfred is a member of the German Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Sciences of the United States. He has received numerous awards for his work, including the Gauss Prize and the Humboldt Prize.