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==Honours and awards== Eigen won numerous awards for his research including: * [[Otto Hahn Prize]] (1962)<ref name=planck>{{cite web|url=https://www.mpibpc.mpg.de/14858258/Manfred_Eigen|title=Manfred Eigen|website=www.mpibpc.mpg.de|access-date=8 February 2019|archive-date=25 March 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190325020722/https://www.mpibpc.mpg.de/14858258/Manfred_Eigen|url-status=dead}}</ref> * Elected a member of the [[American Academy of Arts and Sciences]] (1964)<ref name=":0" /> * Elected a member of the United States [[National Academy of Sciences]] (1966)<ref name=":1" /> * [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry]] (1967), shared with [[Ronald George Wreyford Norrish]] and [[George Porter]], for his studies on the [[Chemical kinetics|kinetics]] of extremely fast running [[chemical reaction]]s with [[Temperature jump|relaxation methods]]<ref>{{cite web|title=The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1967 – Nobelprize.org|url=https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/1967/|access-date=2 April 2013}}</ref> * Elected a member of the [[American Philosophical Society]] (1968)<ref name=":2" /> * Member of the [[Soviet Academy of Sciences]] (now the Russian Academy of Sciences) (1976)<ref name=academia>{{Cite web|url=http://www.pas.va/content/accademia/en/academicians/ordinary/eigen.html|title=Manfred Eigen|website=www.pas.va|access-date=8 February 2019|archive-date=29 June 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190629155538/http://www.pas.va/content/accademia/en/academicians/ordinary/eigen.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> * <!-- Corresponding Member of the [[Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities]] (1972) - [can find no source] --> * Elected a [[List of Fellows of the Royal Society elected in 1973|Foreign Member of the Royal Society (ForMemRS) in 1973]]<ref name=formemrs/> * [[Pour le Mérite]] (1973)<ref>{{cite web|date=2019|title=Pour le Mérite: Manfred Eigen|url=http://www.orden-pourlemerite.de/sites/default/files/vita/Manfred-Eigen-vita.pdf|work=www.orden-pourlemerite.de|access-date=7 February 2019|archive-date=9 February 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190209124402/http://www.orden-pourlemerite.de/sites/default/files/vita/Manfred-Eigen-vita.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref> * [[Faraday Lectureship Prize]] from the [[Royal Society of Chemistry]] in 1977<ref name=cv/> * [[Austrian Decoration for Science and Art]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.ae-info.org/ae/Member/Eigen_Manfred|title=Academy of Europe: Eigen Manfred|website=www.ae-info.org}}</ref> * [[Lower Saxony State Prize]] for Science (1980)<ref>{{cite web|date=2019|title=Der Niedersächsische Staatspreis|url=https://niedersachsen.de/land_leute/menschen/sehr_geehrte_niedersachsen/der-niedersaechsische-staatspreis-20065.html|work=Portal Niedersachsen|access-date=7 February 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190913205150/https://niedersachsen.de/land_leute/menschen/sehr_geehrte_niedersachsen/der-niedersaechsische-staatspreis-20065.html|archive-date=13 September 2019|url-status=dead}}</ref> * [[Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize]] (1992)<ref name=planck/> * Helmholtz Medal ([[Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities]], 1994)<ref name=academia/> * Max Planck Research Award (1994), jointly with Rudolf Rigler of the [[Karolinska Institute]]<ref>{{cite news|last=Brünjes|first=Angela|date=5 December 2014|title=Manfred Eigen erhielt 1967 den Nobelpreis für Chemie|url=http://www.goettinger-tageblatt.de/Campus/Themen/Nobelpreis-Hell/Manfred-Eigen-erhielt-1967-den-Nobelpreis-fuer-Chemie|work=[[Göttinger Tageblatt]]|language=de|access-date=7 February 2019}}</ref> * Honorary member of the [[Ruhr University Bochum]] (2001)<ref name=cv>{{Cite web|url=https://www.mpibpc.mpg.de/15881298/cv|title=Vita|website=www.mpibpc.mpg.de|access-date=18 April 2020|archive-date=21 September 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200921155953/https://www.mpibpc.mpg.de/15881298/cv|url-status=dead}}</ref> * Lifetime Achievement Award from the [[Institute of Human Virology]] in [[Baltimore]] (2005)<ref name=planck/> * [[Wilhelm Exner Medal]] (2011)<ref>Editor, ÖGV. (2015). Wilhelm Exner Medal. Austrian Trade Association. ÖGV. Austria.</ref> ===Honorary doctorates=== He received 15 honorary doctorates.<ref>{{cite web |last=Rotte |first=Carmen |date=7 February 2019 |title=Göttingen Nobel Laureate Manfred Eigen has died |url=https://www.mpibpc.mpg.de/15874842/Manfred-Eigen |work=mpibpc.mpg.de |location=Munich |publisher=Max-Planck-Gesellschaft |access-date=18 April 2020 |archive-date=12 December 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211212143309/https://www.mpibpc.mpg.de/15874842/Manfred-Eigen |url-status=dead }}</ref> * Honorary Professor, [[Technical University of Braunschweig]] (1965)<ref name=cv /> * Honorary doctorate from [[Harvard University]] (1966)<ref name="Nobel_biographical">{{cite web|date=2019|title=Eigen – Biographical|url=https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/1967/eigen/biographical/|work=NobelPrize.org|publisher=Nobel Media AB|access-date=7 February 2019}}</ref> * Honorary doctorate from [[Washington University in St. Louis]] (1966)<ref name=cv /> * Honorary doctorate from the [[University of Chicago]] (1966)<ref name=cv /> * Honorary doctorate from the [[University of Nottingham]] (1968)<ref name=cv /> * Honorary Professor, [[University of Göttingen]] (1971)<ref name=cv /> * Honorary doctorate from [[Hebrew University of Jerusalem]] (1973)<ref name=cv /> * Honorary doctorate from the [[University of Hull]] (1976)<ref name=cv /> * Honorary doctorate from the [[University of Bristol]] (1978)<ref name=cv /> * Honorary doctorate from the [[University of Debrecen]] (1982)<ref name=cv /> * Honorary doctorate from the [[University of Cambridge]] (1982)<ref name=cv /> * Honorary doctorate from [[Technical University of Munich]] (1983)<ref name=cv /> * Honorary doctorate from the [[University of Bielefeld]] (1985)<ref name=cv /> * Honorary doctorate from [[Utah State University]] (1990)<ref name=cv /> * Honorary doctorate from the [[University of Alicante]] (1990)<ref name=cv /> * Honorary doctorate from the [[University of Coimbra]], Portugal (2007)<ref name=cv /> * Honorary Degree, [[Scripps Research|Scripps Institute of Research]] (2011)<ref name=cv /> {{clear}}
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