Editing Mitchell Feigenbaum (section)

{{Short description|American mathematical physicist (1944–2019)}}
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| caption           = Mitchell Feigenbaum in 2006
|birth_name         = Mitchell Jay Feigenbaum
| birth_date        = {{Birth date|1944|12|19|mf=yes}}
| birth_place       = [[Philadelphia]], [[Pennsylvania]], US
| death_date        = {{death date and age |2019|06|30 |1944|12|19}}
| death_place       = [[New York City]], New York, US
| nationality       = [[United States|American]]
| fields            = [[Mathematical physics]]
| workplaces        = [[Rockefeller University]]
| alma_mater        = {{nowrap|[[City College of New York]] <small>([[Bachelor of Science|BS]])</small>}}<br/ >[[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]] <small>([[Doctor of Philosophy|PhD]])</small>
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| doctoral_advisor  = [[Francis E. Low]]
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| known_for         = [[Feigenbaum constants]]<br>[[Feigenbaum function]]<br>[[Logistic map#Feigenbaum universality of 1-D maps|Feigenbaum universality]]
| awards            = [[MacArthur Fellows Program|MacArthur Fellow]] {{small|(1984)}}<br/>[[Wolf Prize in Physics|Wolf Prize]] {{small|(1986)}}<br/>[[Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics|Heineman Prize]] {{small|(2008)}}
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'''Mitchell Jay Feigenbaum''' {{IPAc-en|ˈ|f|aɪ|ɡ|ə|n|ˌ|b|aʊ|m}} (December 19, 1944 – June 30, 2019) was an American [[mathematical physics|mathematical physicist]] whose pioneering studies in [[chaos theory]] led to the discovery of the [[Feigenbaum constants]].