Mitchell Feigenbaum

Mitchell Feigenbaum was an American mathematician, physicist, and university teacher. Born in Philadelphia in 1944, he was educated at the City College of New York and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His doctoral advisor was Francis E. Low. He worked at Cornell University, The Rockefeller University, Virginia Tech, and Los Alamos National Laboratory. His fields of work included mathematical physics and chaos theory.

Feigenbaum received several awards, including the MacArthur Fellows Program award, the Wolf Prize in Physics, the Dickson Prize in Science, and the Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics. He was a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His notable work includes the Feigenbaum constants. He died in New York City in 2019 due to a myocardial infarction.