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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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Born
1927
Works
15

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5 total works indexed

  1. Full-length transcriptome assembly from RNA-Seq data without a reference genome

    · 2011 · cited 19,401x

  2. 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 · cited 10,995x

  3. De novo transcript sequence reconstruction from RNA-seq using the Trinity platform for reference generation and analysis

    · 2013 · cited 7,875x

  4. Double-slit photoelectron interference in strong-field ionization of the neon dimer

    · 2019 · cited 7,820x

  5. Observation of a new particle in the search for the Standard Model Higgs boson with the ATLAS detector at the LHC

    · 2012 · cited 6,795x

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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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Instance of
human
Given name
Manfred
Gender
male
Citizenship
Germany
Place of birth
Bochum
Place of death
Göttingen
Occupation
biophysicist
Employer
University of Göttingen
Languages spoken
English language
Doctoral advisor
Arnold Eucken
Doctoral student
Petra Schwille
Field of work
biophysics
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member of
Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts
Commons category
Manfred Eigen
date of birth
1927-05-09
nominated for
Nobel Prize in Chemistry
name in native language
Manfred Eigen
date of death
2019-02-06
influenced by
Werner Heisenberg
place of burial
Göttingen City Cemetery
P8168
Maciova
interested in
chemistry
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Encyclopedic overview

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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