Ilya Prigogine

Russian-Belgian physical chemist (1917–2003)

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Ilya Prigogine was a Russian-Belgian chemist who made groundbreaking contributions to understanding how systems far from equilibrium—like living organisms and weather patterns—change and organize themselves over time. His work earned him the Nobel Prize in Chemistry and fundamentally influenced how scientists think about complexity, time, and order in the natural world.

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Born: 25 January 1917
Died: 28 March 2003
Works: 97

Top works

On a reformulation of the classical electron theory
La nueva alianza / The New Alliance
Surface Tension & Adsorption
Entre el tiempo y la eternidad
Advances in Chemical Physics

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Listeners: 378
Total plays: 830

Quotes

“Coherent behavior is the characteristic feature of biological systems.”
“My colleague Paul Glansdorff and I have investigated the problem as to if the results of near-equilibrium can be extrapolated to those of far - from-equilibrium situations and have arrived at a surprising conclusion: Contrary to what happens at equilibrium, or near equilibrium, systems far from equilibrium do not conform to any minimum principle that is valid for functions of free energy or entropy production.”

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Viscount Ilya Romanovich Prigogine (/prɪˈɡoʊʒiːn/; Russian: Илья Романович Пригожин; 25 January [O.S. 12 January] 1917 – 28 May 2003) was a Belgian physical chemist, noted for his work on dissipative structures, complex systems, and irreversibility.

Prigogine's work most notably earned him the 1977 Nobel Prize in Chemistry “for his contributions to non-equilibrium thermodynamics, particularly the theory of dissipative structures”, as well as the Francqui Prize in 1955, and the Rumford Medal in 1976.