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Mitchell Feigenbaum
Mitchell Jay Feigenbaum was an American mathematical physicist whose pioneering studies in chaos theory led to the discovery of the Feigenbaum constants.
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science · American mathematical physicist (1944–2019) · mathematician · physicist · university teacher · also Mitchell Feigenbaum, Mitchell Jay Feigenbaum, M. J. Feigenbaum, Feigenbaum
Born 19 December 1944 · Died 30 June 2019 · Q354659
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2019· 1 entry
Died 2019-06-30.
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2017· 1 entry
Awarded Clarivate Citation Laureates (2017).
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2008· 1 entry
Awarded Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics (2008).
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1988· 1 entry
Awarded Dickson Prize in Science (1988).
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1986· 1 entry
Awarded Wolf Prize in Physics (1986).
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1983· 1 entry
Was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship, and in 1986, alongside Rockefeller University colleague Albert Libchaber, he was awarded the Wolf Prize in Physics "for his pioneering theoretical studies demonstrating the universa
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1982· 1 entry
Awarded Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award (1982).
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1975· 1 entry
Using an HP-65 calculator, that the ratio of the difference between the values at which such successive period-doubling bifurcations occur tends to a constant of around 4
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1970· 1 entry
For a thesis on dispersion relations, under the supervision of Professor Francis E
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1964· 1 entry
Began his graduate studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
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1944· 1 entry
Born 1944-12-19.
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