[4] The National Institutes of Health stated that "Dr. Murray Eden elevated the NIH Biomedical Engineering and Physical Science Program.
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-World War II anti-Semitism, the family experienced economic difficulties during his childhood years.
[5][6] During World War II, c. 1941, 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.
[3] He has made independent innovations in computerized tomography while working on pattern recognition, image processing, handwritten generation & analysis, between the early 1960s-1976.
[16][6] He chose the font, and he came up with the idea to add numbers to the bottom, which is a failsafe system, in case the code reader is down.