Manfred Eigen (1927–2019), An Obituary-Tribute

German biophysical chemist Manfred Eigen died in his home in Göttingen, Lower Saxony, on February 6, 2019 at the age of 91. He was married to Elfriede Müller by whom he had two children, Gerald (b. 1953) and Angela (b. 1960). He later married his longtime scientific partner Ruthild Winkler-Oswatitsch. He is survived by his wife and children. He had shared the 1967 Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1/2) with Ronald George Wreyford (1/4) and George Porter (1/4) “for their studies of extremely fast chemical reactions, effected by disturbing the equilibrium by means of very short pulses of energy.”