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Dr. Feigenbaum received his Ph.D. in theoretical high energy physics
from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1970, under Francis E.
Low. He was a research associate at Cornell University from 1970 to
1972 and a research associate at Virginia Polytechnic Institute from
1972 to 1974. He then moved to Los Alamos National Laboratory, where he
was a staff member from 1974 to 1981 and a fellow from 1981 to 1982.
(Dr. Feigenbaum, while creating his work on chaos, shared his office
with Murray Gell-Mann in 1976.) From 1982 to 1986 he was a professor of
physics at Cornell University. Dr. Feigenbaum was a visiting member at
the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, in 1978 and
1984. He joined Rockefeller University in 1986. In addition to being the
university’s Toyota Professor, he is also director of the Center for
Studies in Physics and Biology.
Among many awards, Dr. Feigenbaum
received the 2008 Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics for
developing the theory of deterministic chaos and a 2005 New York City
Mayor’s Award for Excellence in Science and Technology for his
pioneering studies in chaos theory. In 1986 he was awarded Israel’s top
scientific honor, the Wolf Foundation Prize in Physics. He was presented
with a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Fellowship in
1984, the Ernest O. Lawrence Award by the United States Department of
Energy in 1982 and Los Alamos National Laboratory’s Distinguished
Performance Award in 1980. He was elected to the American Academy of
Arts and Sciences in 1987 and the National Academy of Sciences in 1988.
