{"623543":{"#nid":"623543","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Mitchell Feigenbaum, Physicist, Dies at 74; He Made Sense of Chaos","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EMitchell J. Feigenbaum, a pioneer in the field of mathematical physics known as chaos, died on June 30 in Manhattan. He was 74. ... During a postdoctoral fellowship at Cornell, Dr. Feigenbaum was already allowing his focus to wander. \u0026ldquo;He was not very happy with the physics he was doing at that time,\u0026rdquo; said \u003Cstrong\u003EPredrag Cvitanovic\u003C\/strong\u003E, a theoretical physicist at the\u0026nbsp;Georgia Institute of Technology School of Physics, who was a graduate student at Cornell at the time. \u0026ldquo;The main thing he did is he solved the New York Times crossword puzzle every morning,\u0026rdquo; Dr. Cvitanovic said. \u0026ldquo;It was just clear that he was very smart. He didn\u0026rsquo;t produce anything I was aware of.\u0026rdquo;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"30678","created_gmt":"2019-07-19 17:41:01","changed_gmt":"2019-07-19 17:53:04","author":"A. Maureen Rouhi","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"Extension of Self","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/07\/18\/science\/mitchell-feigenbaum-dead.html","dateline":{"date":"2019-07-18T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2019-07-18T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"126011","name":"School of Physics"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"181784","name":"Predrag Cvitanovic"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}