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Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, 1977 Ilya Prigogine was born in 1917 in Moscow. In 1921 his family left Russia and settled in Belgium. In 1941, he received his Ph.D. degree in Chemistry from the Free University of Brussels, where he began teaching in 1945. During his years as a student he began to develop the theories that would make him famous, theories based on the idea that the evolutionary tendency in the direction of disorder and incoherence postulated by the second law of thermodynamics is in no way inevitable. In 1954, he published Introduction to Thermodynamics of Irreversible Processes, in which he develops the concept of "dissipative structures" - the dramatic of which is life itself - able to survive indefinitely in equilibrium with their surroundings. The same year, he was awarded the Franqui Prize for his ideas and their growing influence on the scientific community. Prigogine's study of thermodynamics and the concepts of time and irreversibility has brought him a steady stream of honours, culminating in the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1977, the first for a Belgian chemist. From 1961 to 1966, he held a special chair in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Chicago and had directed the International Solvay Institute for Physics and Chemistry since 1959. Since 1967, he has been director of the Ilya Prigogine Center for Studies in Statistical Mechanics at the University of Texas at Austin, renamed in his honour on the occasion of his winning the Nobel Prize. A long-time proponent of the need for a dialogue between scientists and humanists, Prigogine is known to the wider public for his more popular works, authentic scientific best-sellers, including Order 0ut of Chaos (with Isabelle Stengers, 1979), From Being to Becoming - Time and Complexity in the Physical Sciences (1980) and Exploring Complexity (with G. Nicolis, 1989). |
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