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Murray Eden, noted chemist - physical chemistry.

The NIH stated that Dr. Murray Eden elevated the NIH Biomedical Engineering and Physical Science Program.

Dr. Eden was a renowned pioneer in the field of biomedical engineering & imaging. He was former director of the trans-NIH Biomedical Engineering and NIH's Physical Science Program.

Murray Eden was born in Brooklyn in August 17, 1920 to Russian-Jewish immigrants. His father was president of the Hebrew Teachers Union, and later, Executive Secretary of the Jewish Education Committee in New York City.

Due to the depression as well as pre- WW2 anti-Semitism, the family experienced economic difficulties during his childhood years.

He graduated at 14 from Townsend Harris high school in Manhattan, in 1935 . Attended City College of New York, 1935-39, graduated in 1939. In 1940 he moved to Washington DC, as a chemistry major and in 1951 received his Ph.D. in chemistry from the University Maryland.

During World War II, as civil service, alongside then student Dick Feynman and others he worked in the Princeton facility of the Manhattan Project assisting in producing uranium-235.