Ilya Prigogine
(1917 January 25 - 2003 May 28)
Education:
Professional Experience:
1950 | Professorship, Université Libre de Bruxelles |
1959 | Professor at the University of Texas at Austin |
Service:
1959 | Director of the International Solvay Institute |
1961-1966 | Affiliation with Enrico Fermi at the University of Chicago |
1967 | Center for Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics |
Honors and Awards:
1977 | Nobel Prize |
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In Memoriam by Balescu, R. (2004). Ilya prigogine (1917-2003). Nature, 424(6944):30
In Memoriam by Nicolis, G. (2003). Ilya Prigogine (1917-2003): Structure formation far from equilibrium. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 42(29):2324-2325
In Memoriam by Petrosky, T. (2003). Obituaries: Ilya Prigogine. SIAM News, 36(7):0
In Memoriam by Rice, S. A. (2004). Ilya Prigogine. Physics Today, 54(4):102-104
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Ilya Prigogine on Wikipedia.
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Ilya Prigogine was born in Russia, 1917. Fleeing the effects of the Russian Revolution, his family moved to Germany, then Belgium, the country Prigogine would come to call his own.He studied chemistry and physics at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, graduating in 1939 with a Ph.D. He studied the fields of nonlinear dynamics and physics on the microscopic level. His work on "dissipative structure" earned him the 1977 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. After this award, he continued to be active in scientific fields.