Tannenbaum's initial work was in quantum chemistry as part of his Harvard University doctoral thesis[2] where he developed a novel partial differential equation approach to the EBK quantization of nearly separable Hamiltonians in the quasi-integrable regime.
Emmanuel Tannenbaum subsequently devoted his research to studying various problems in evolutionary dynamics using quasispecies models.
Tannenbaum demonstrated a strong selective advantage for sexual reproduction with fewer and much less restrictive assumptions than previously considered.
[4] Closely related to this line of reasoning, was the original work by Tannenbaum and James Sherley on the immortal strand hypothesis.
[6] Emmanuel Tannenbaum received a number of honors, including the Robert Karplus Prize in Chemical Physics from Harvard University, the prestigious Alon Fellowship[7] from the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, and a National Institutes of Health research fellowship.