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Ilya Prigogine

Ilya Prigogine
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Born Ilya Romanovich Prigogine
(1917-01-25)25 January 1917
Moscow, Russian Empire
Died 28 May 2003(2003-05-28) (aged 86)
Brussels, Belgium
Nationality Belgian
Fields Chemistry
Physics
Institutions Université Libre de Bruxelles
International Solvay Institute
University of Texas, Austin
Alma mater Université Libre de Bruxelles
Doctoral advisor Théophile de Donder
Doctoral students Adi Bulsara
Radu Bălescu
Dilip Kondepudi
Zili Zhang
Known for Dissipative structures
Brusselator
Influences Ludwig Boltzmann
Alan Turing
Henri Bergson
Michel Serres
Influenced Isabelle Stengers, Immanuel Wallerstein
Notable awards Francqui Prize (1955)
Rumford Medal (1976)
Nobel Prize for Chemistry (1977)
Spouse Hélène Jofé (m. 1945; 1 child) Maria Prokopowicz (m. 1961; 1 child)

Viscount Ilya Romanovich Prigogine (/ˈprɡʒn, -ɡn/; Russian: Илья́ Рома́нович Приго́жин, Ilya Romanovich Prigozhin;25 January [O.S. 12 January] 1917 – 28 May 2003) was a Belgian physical chemist and Nobel Laureate noted for his work on dissipative structures, complex systems, and irreversibility.

Prigogine was born in Moscow a few months before the Russian Revolution of 1917, into a Jewish family. His father, Roman (Ruvim Abramovich) Prigogine, was a chemical engineer at the Imperial Moscow Technical School; his mother, Yulia Vikhman, was a pianist. Because the family was critical of the new Soviet system, they left Russia in 1921. They first went to Germany and in 1929, to Belgium, where Prigogine received Belgian nationality in 1949. His brother Alexandre (1913-1991) became an ornithologist.


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