Manfred Eigen

Personal life Eigen was married to Elfriede Müller.

Honours and awards Eigen won numerous awards for his research, including: Otto Hahn Prize (1962) Elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1964) Elected a member of the American Philosophical Society (1968)

Elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Society (ForMemRS) in 1973 Pour le Mérite (1973) Faraday Lectureship Prize from the Royal Society of Chemistry in 1977 Lower Saxony State Prize for Science (1980) Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize (1992) Honorary member of the Ruhr University Bochum (2001) Lifetime Achievement Award from the Institute of Human Virology in Baltimore (2005)

Honorary doctorates He received 15 honorary doctorates.

Honorary Professor, Technical University of Braunschweig (1965) Honorary doctorate from Washington University in St. Louis (1966) Honorary doctorate from the University of Chicago (1966) Honorary doctorate from the University of Nottingham (1968) Honorary Professor, University of Göttingen (1971) Honorary doctorate from Hebrew University of Jerusalem (1973) Honorary doctorate from the University of Hull (1976) Honorary doctorate from the University of Bristol (1978) Honorary doctorate from the University of Debrecen (1982) Honorary doctorate from the University of Cambridge (1982) Honorary doctorate from Technical University of Munich (1983) Honorary doctorate from Bielefeld University (1985) Honorary doctorate from Utah State University (1990) Honorary doctorate from the University of Alicante (1990) Honorary doctorate from the University of Coimbra, Portugal (2007) Honorary Degree, Scripps Institute of Research (2011)