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Manfred Eigen

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Manfred Eigen

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German biophysical chemist (1927-2019)

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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
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Nobel Prize

  • The Nobel Prize in Chemistry1967

    for their studies of extremely fast chemical reactions, effected by disturbing the equilibrium by means of very short pulses of energy

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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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