Editing Mitchell Feigenbaum (section)

== Early life ==
Feigenbaum was born in [[Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]],<ref name="rockefeller">{{Cite news|url=https://www.rockefeller.edu/news/26289-mitchell-feigenbaum-physicist-pioneered-chaos-theory-died/|title=Mitchell Feigenbaum, physicist who pioneered chaos theory, has died|date=July 2, 2019|access-date=July 3, 2019|publisher=[[Rockefeller University]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200121013332/https://www.rockefeller.edu/news/26289-mitchell-feigenbaum-physicist-pioneered-chaos-theory-died/ |archive-date=January 21, 2020 |url-status=live}}</ref> to Jewish emigrants from [[Poland]] and [[Ukraine]]. He attended [[Samuel J. Tilden High School]], in [[Brooklyn]], New York, and the [[City College of New York]].  In 1964, he began his graduate studies at the [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]] (MIT).  Enrolling for graduate study in [[electrical engineering]], he changed his area of study to [[physics]]. He completed his doctorate in 1970 for a thesis on [[dispersion relation]]s, under the supervision of Professor [[Francis E. Low]].<ref name=sta>{{cite web|url=http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/Mathematicians/Feigenbaum.html|title=Mitchell Jay Feigenbaum|publisher=University of St Andrews}}</ref>