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Mitchell Feigenbaum
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American mathematical physicist (1944–2019)
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5 total works indexed
- The Third International Consensus Definitions for Sepsis and Septic Shock (Sepsis-3)
· 2016 · cited 22,868x
- The american rheumatism association 1987 revised criteria for the classification of rheumatoid arthritis
· 1988 · cited 15,766x
- Integrative genomics viewer
· 2011 · cited 14,523x
- 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 10,798x
- The Sequence of the Human Genome
· 2001 · cited 10,177x
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- Born
- Mitchell Jay Feigenbaum , ( 1944-12-19 ) December 19, 1944, Philadelphia , Pennsylvania , US
- Died
- June 30, 2019 (2019-06-30) (aged 74), New York City , New York, US
- Citizenship
- American
- Alma mater
- City College of New York ( BS ) , Massachusetts Institute of Technology ( PhD )
- Known for
- Feigenbaum constants , Feigenbaum function , Feigenbaum universality
- Awards
- MacArthur Fellow (1984) , Wolf Prize (1986) , Heineman Prize (2008)
- Fields
- Mathematical physics
- Institutions
- Rockefeller University
- Doctoral advisor
- Francis E. Low
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Mitchell Jay Feigenbaum /ˈfaɪɡənˌbaʊm/ (December 19, 1944 – June 30, 2019) was an American mathematical physicist whose pioneering studies in chaos theory led to the discovery of the Feigenbaum constants.
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