photo Ilya Prigogine

Ilya Prigogine

Prize
Nobel Prize in Chemistry — 1977
for his contributions to non-equilibrium thermodynamics, particularly the theory of dissipative structures
Citizenship
Russian Empire Russian Empire Belgium Belgium
Languages
English, Russian, French
date of birth
1/25/1917, 1/25/1917
place of birth
Moscow
date of death
5/28/2003
place of death
Brussels metropolitan area
Lived
86 years
member of
  • National Academy of Sciences
    • start time: 1/1/1967
  • Academy of Sciences of the USSR
  • North Rhine-Westphalia Academy for Sciences and Arts
  • International Academy of the History of Science
  • Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Lower Saxony
  • American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
  • Russian Academy of Sciences
  • Romanian Academy
  • National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
  • German Academy of Sciences at Berlin
doctoral student
  • Pierre M. V. Résibois
  • Zili Zhang
  • Michael Vladimirovich Rosenberg
  • Werner Horsthemke
  • Leon Brenig
  • Bernard Lavenda
  • Francisco de Assis Bosco
  • Alexandre Serge François Pomposo
  • Alkis P. Grecos
  • Dilip Kondepudi
  • Paul Mandel
  • André de Palma
  • Ping Chen
  • Radu Bălescu
  • Adi Bulsara
  • Grégoire Nicolis
  • Manuel García Velarde
  • Harry Friedmann
employer
  • University of Texas at Austin
  • University of Chicago
  • Université libre de Bruxelles
occupation
  • physicist
  • chemist
  • university teacher
  • philosopher
  • non-fiction writer
educated at
  • Université libre de Bruxelles
field of work
  • chemistry
  • physics
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