Mitchell Feigenbaum
Mitchell Feigenbaum · Science & Medicine
Physicist; chaos theory and the universal Feigenbaum constants
1944, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA — 2019, New York City, USA
United States (Los Alamos, New Mexico · New York)
Mitchell Feigenbaum is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Physicist; chaos theory and the universal Feigenbaum constants
Feigenbaum discovered the universal constants that govern the transition to chaos in a wide class of dynamical systems, a cornerstone of chaos theory. Born in Philadelphia to a Jewish immigrant family, he worked at Los Alamos National Laboratory and later Rockefeller University. His constants appear across physics, biology and economics wherever order gives way to turbulence.
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Physicist; chaos theory and the universal Feigenbaum constants
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Physics
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