Mitchell Feigenbaum

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Mitchell Feigenbaum
Mitchell Feigenbaum in 2006
Born	Mitchell Jay Feigenbaum (1944-12-19)December 19, 1944 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US
Died	June 30, 2019(2019-06-30) (aged 74) New York City, New York, US
Nationality	American
Alma mater	City College of New York (BS) Massachusetts Institute of Technology (PhD)
Known for	Feigenbaum constants Feigenbaum function Feigenbaum universality
Awards	MacArthur Fellow (1984) Wolf Prize (1986) Heineman Prize (2008)
Scientific career
Fields	Mathematical physics
Institutions	Rockefeller University
Doctoral advisor	Francis E. Low

Mitchell Jay Feigenbaum /ˈfaɪɡənˌbaʊm/ (December 19, 1944 – June 30, 2019) was an American mathematical physicist whose pioneering studies in chaos theory led to the discovery of the Feigenbaum constants.