Manfred Eigen
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Manfred Eigen was a German biophysical chemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1967 for developing methods to study extremely fast chemical reactions. His work laid important foundations for understanding how chemical processes happen at the molecular level, with applications to biology and chemistry research.
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- 1927
- Died
- 2019-02-06
- Works
- 15
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- Full-length transcriptome assembly from RNA-Seq data without a reference genome
· 2011 · cited 19,129x
- Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 354 diseases and injuries for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017
· 2018
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Dutch Queen Beatrix meets five Nobel prize winners (1983): Paul Berg, Christian de Duve, Steven Weinberg, Manfred Eigen & Nicolaas Bloembergen
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.
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1927 births2019 deathsAcademic staff of the University of GöttingenAcademic staff of TU BraunschweigEscapees from Soviet detentionForeign associates of the National Academy of SciencesForeign members of the Royal SocietyForeign members of the Russian Academy of SciencesForeign members of the USSR Academy of SciencesFounding members of the World Cultural CouncilGerman atheists