Manfred Eigen
1927 – 2019 · aged 92
German biophysical chemist (1927-2019)
- Born
- 9 May 1927 · Bochum
- Died
- 6 Feb 2019 · Göttingen
Life timeline
Their life from birth to death. On the timeline, world events of the time are shown faintly.
- 9 May 1927BornBorn in Bochum
- 1962AwardBourke Award
- 1962AwardOtto Hahn Prize
- 1962AwardOtto Hahn Prize for Chemistry and Physics
- 1967AwardCarus medal
- 1967AwardLinus Pauling Award
- 1967AwardNobel Prize in Chemistry
- 1967AwardParacelsus Prize
- 1973AwardForeign Member of the Royal Society
- 1976AwardAustrian Decoration for Science and Art
- 1977AwardFaraday Lectureship Prize
- 1980AwardLower Saxony State Prize
- 1992AwardPaul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize
- 6 Feb 2019DiedDied in Göttingen
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Meanwhile in the world
Major world events during their lifetime (1927 – 2019).
- 1933 – 1945The Holocaust
- 19341934 FIFA World Cup
- 19361936 Summer Olympics
- 1937 – 1945Second Sino-Japanese War
- 19381938 FIFA World Cup
- 1938Munich Agreement
- 1939 – 1940Winter War
- 1939 – 1945World War II
- 1940 – 1945Auschwitz concentration camp
- 1941Attack on Pearl Harbor
- 1941 – 1945Eastern Front
- 1941Operation Barbarossa
- 1942 – 1943Battle of Stalingrad
- 1945Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
- 1945 – 1946Nuremberg trials
- 19501950 FIFA World Cup
- 1950 – 1953Korean War
- 1953 – 1959Cuban Revolution
- 19541954 FIFA World Cup
- 1955 – 1975Vietnam War
- 1956Hungarian Revolution of 1956
- 1956Suez Crisis
- 19581958 FIFA World Cup
- 1959Antarctic Treaty System
- 19621962 FIFA World Cup
- 1962Cuban Missile Crisis
- 19661966 FIFA World Cup
- 1966 – 1976Cultural Revolution
- 1968Prague Spring
- 1969Apollo 11 Moon landing
- 19721972 Summer Olympics
- 19741974 FIFA World Cup
- 19781978 FIFA World Cup
- 1978 – 1979Iranian Revolution
- 1979 – 1989Soviet–Afghan War
- 1980 – 1988Iran–Iraq War
- 19841984 Summer Olympics
- 1985Schengen Agreement
- 19891989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre
- 1989Fall of the Berlin Wall
Biography
Manfred Eigen (German pronunciation: [ˈmanˌfʁeːt ˈaɪ̯ɡn̩] ; 9 May 1927 – 6 February 2019) was a German biophysical chemist who won the 1967 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for work on measuring fast chemical reactions.
Eigen's research helped solve major problems in physical chemistry and aided in the understanding of chemical processes that occur in living organisms.
In later years, he explored the biochemical roots of life and evolution. He worked to install a multidisciplinary program at the Max Planck Institute to study the underpinnings of life at the molecular level. His work was hailed for creating a new scientific and technological discipline: evolutionary biotechnology.
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