1. Manfred Eigen worked to install a multidisciplinary program at the Max Planck Institute to study the underpinnings of life at the molecular level.
17 Facts About Manfred Eigen
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Manfred Eigen's work was hailed for creating a new scientific and technological discipline: evolutionary biotechnology.
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Manfred Eigen was born on 9 May 1927 in Bochum, the son of Ernst and Hedwig Manfred Eigen, a chamber musician.
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Manfred Eigen was captured by the Americans toward the end of the war.
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Manfred Eigen managed to escape, and walked hundreds of miles across defeated Germany, arriving in Gottingen in 1945.
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Manfred Eigen lacked the necessary documentation for acceptance to university, but was admitted after he demonstrated his knowledge in an exam.
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Manfred Eigen desired to study physics, but since returning soldiers who were enrolled previously received priority, he enrolled in Geophysics.
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Manfred Eigen earned an undergraduate degree and began graduate study in natural sciences.
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Manfred Eigen's findings demonstrated for the first time that it was possible to determine the rates of chemical reactions that occurred during time intervals as brief as a nanosecond.
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Manfred Eigen was an honorary professor of the Braunschweig University of Technology.
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From 1982 to 1993, Manfred Eigen was president of the German National Merit Foundation.
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Manfred Eigen was a member of the Board of Sponsors of The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.
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In 1967, Manfred Eigen was awarded, along with Ronald George Wreyford Norrish and George Porter, the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
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In 1981, Manfred Eigen became a founding member of the World Cultural Council.
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Manfred Eigen was a member of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences even though he was an atheist.
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Manfred Eigen died on 6 February 2019 at the age of 91.
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Manfred Eigen later married Ruthild Winkler-Oswatitsch, a longtime scientific partner.