Manfred Eigen

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.

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