{"id":89317,"date":"2019-04-08T12:02:50","date_gmt":"2019-04-08T19:02:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/manfred-eigen-nobel-prize-winning-german-chemist-and-physicist-who-after-serving-in-the-wehrmacht-founded-two-distinct-scientific-disciplines-obituary"},"modified":"2019-04-08T12:02:50","modified_gmt":"2019-04-08T19:02:50","slug":"manfred-eigen-nobel-prize-winning-german-chemist-and-physicist-who-after-serving-in-the-wehrmacht-founded-two-distinct-scientific-disciplines-obituary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/manfred-eigen-nobel-prize-winning-german-chemist-and-physicist-who-after-serving-in-the-wehrmacht-founded-two-distinct-scientific-disciplines-obituary","title":{"rendered":"Manfred Eigen, Nobel Prize-winning German chemist and physicist who, after serving in the Wehrmacht, founded two distinct scientific disciplines \u2013 obituary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/manfred-eigen-nobel-prize-winning-german-chemist-and-physicist-who-after-serving-in-the-wehrmacht-founded-two-distinct-scientific-disciplines-obituary.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Manfred Eigen, who has died aged 91, was a phenomenally versatile German chemist and physicist who founded two major scientific disciplines, first in chemical reaction kinetics and later in the development of a molecular approach to evolutionary biology.<\/p>\n<p>He also co-founded two biotechnology companies \u2013 Evotec, now a \u20ac3.29 billion concern, and Direvo, which was acquired by Bayer Healthcare for $300 million in 2008.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/obituaries\/2019\/04\/08\/manfred-eigen-nobel-prize-winning-german-chemist-physicist-serving\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manfred Eigen, who has died aged 91, was a phenomenally versatile German chemist and physicist who founded two major scientific disciplines, first in chemical reaction kinetics and later in the development of a molecular approach to evolutionary biology. He also co-founded two biotechnology companies \u2013 Evotec, now a \u20ac3.29 billion concern, and Direvo, which was [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89317\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}