Manfred Eigen
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Manfred Eigen (born May 9, 1927, Bochum) is a German biophysicist and a former director of the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen.
In 1967, he was awarded, along with Ronald George Wreyford Norrish and George Porter, the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. They were distinguished for their studies of extremely fast chemical reactions induced in response to very short pulses of energy.
In addition, his name is linked with the theory of the chemical hypercycle, the cyclic linkage of reaction cycles as an explanation for the self organization of prebiotic systems, which he described with Peter Schuster in 1979. Prof. Eigen is a member of the Board of Sponsors of The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists[1].
See also: Quasispecies model
[edit] Bibliography
- Manfred Eigen and Peter Schuster The Hypercycle: A principle of natural self-organization, 1979, Springer ISBN 0-387-09293-5
- Manfred Eigen, Ruthild Winkler: The Rules of the Game, 1993, Princeton University Press, ISBN 0-691-02566-5
- Manfred Eigen, "Molekulare Selbstorganisation und Evolution." (Self organization of matter and the evolution of biological macro molecules.) Naturwissenschaften 58 (10). 1971 pp. 465-523. In English. Influential theoretical paper on origin-of-life biochemistry.
[edit] External links
- Manfred Eigen's homepage at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry
- Video of Manfred Eigen at the Peoples Archive
- Interview with Manfred Eigen by Harry Kroto, NL Freeview video provided by the Vega Science Trust.
- Interview with Manfred Eigen from 2004
- debate on theory and proof
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Nobel Laureate in Chemistry |
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| Preceded by Robert S. Mulliken |
Nobel Prize in Chemistry with: Ronald George Wreyford Norrish and George Porter 1967 |
Succeeded by Lars Onsager |
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