Mitchell J. Feigenbaum, 1982
Physics: For his discovery of the period-doubling route-to-chaos, which has furthered the understanding of a wide variety of nonlinear physical phenomena in fields as diverse as turbulence, solid state physics, plasma physics, chemical kinetics, and population biology.
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