Ilya Prigogine
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| Born | Ilya Romanovich Prigogine 25 January 1917 Moscow, Russian Empire |
| Died | 28 May 2003 (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 (/ˈpriːɡoʊʒiːn, -ɡoʊdʒiːn/; 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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