Manfred Eigen was a German biophysical chemist who won the 1967 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for work on measuring fast chemical reactions. The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1967, announced October 30, 1967. Manfred Eigen, Ronald G.W. Norrish, and George Porter, “for their studies of extremely fast chemical reactions, effected by disturbing the equilibrium by means of very short pulses of energy”. Manfred Eigen: born 1927, Bochum, Germany. Ronald G.W. Norrish: born 1897, Cambridge, United Kingdom. George Porter: born 1920, Stainforth, United Kingdom. Wiki link Wiki link Wiki link Data: the Nobel Foundation (CC0).