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Ilya, Viscount Prigogine (
Russian:
Илья́ Рома́нович Приго́жин) (
January 25,
1917 –
May 28,
2003) was a
Belgian physicist and
Nobel Laureate chemist noted for his work on
dissipative structures,
complex systems, and
irreversibility.
Biography
Prigogine was born in
Moscow a few months before the
Russian Revolution of 1917. His father, Roman Prigogine, was a
chemical engineer at the Moscow Institute of Technology. Because the family was critical toward 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.
Prigogine studied
chemistry at the
Free University of Brussels, now split into the
Université Libre de Bruxelles and the
Vrije Universiteit Brussel, where in 1950 he became professor. In
1959, he was appointed director of the
International Solvay Institute in
Brussels,
Belgium. In that year he also started teaching at the
University of Texas at Austin in the
United States, where he later was appointed Regental Professor and Ashbel Smith Professor of Physics and Chemical Engineering. In 1967 he co-founded there what is now called
The Center for Complex Quantum Systems. In that year he also returned to Belgium where he became director of the
Center for Statistical Mechanics and Thermodynamics.
He was a member of numerous scientific organizations, and received numerous awards, prizes and 53 honorary degrees. In 1955 Ilya Prigogine was awarded the
Francqui Prize for Exact Sciences. For this study in
irreversible thermodynamics he received the
Rumford Medal in 1976 and in 1977 the
Nobel Prize in
Chemistry. In 1989 he was awarded the title of
Viscount by the King of Belgium. Until his death he was president of the
International Academy of Science and was in
1997 one of the founders of the
International Commission on Distance Education (CODE), a worldwide accreditation agency.
Work
Prigogine is known best due to his definition of
dissipative structures and their role in
thermodynamic systems far from
equilibrium, a discovery that won him the
Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1977.
Dissipative structures theory
Dissipative structure theory led to pioneering research in
self-organizing systems, as well as philosophic inquiries into the formation of complexity on biological entities and the quest for a creative and irreversible role of time in the
natural sciences.
His work is seen by many as a bridge between natural sciences and
social sciences. With
University of Texas at Austin professor Robert Herman, he also developed the basis of the
two fluid model, a traffic model for urban networks, using
Bose-Einstein Condensation theory in
traffic engineering.
Other Works
In his later years, his work concentrated on the mathematical role of
determinism in
nonlinear systems on both the
classical and
quantum level. He proposed the use of a
rigged Hilbert space in quantum mechanics as one possible method of achieving irreversibility in quantum systems. He also co-authored several books with
Isabelle Stengers, including
End of Certainty and the classical book
La Nouvelle Alliance (
The New Alliance).
Books
Prigogine was the author of several scientific articles and books. A selection:
- 1961, Thermodynamics of Irreversible Processes Second Edition, Wiley, Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 61-12683
- 1977, with G. Nicolis, Self-Organization in Non-Equilibrium Systems, Wiley, ISBN 0-471-02401-5
- 1980, From Being To Becoming, Freeman, ISBN 0-7167-1107-9
- 1984, with Isabelle Stengers Order out of Chaos: Man's new dialogue with nature, Flamingo, ISBN 0-00-654115-1
- 1993, (Editor-in-Chief), Chaotic Dynamics and Transport in Fluids and Plasmas, ISBN 0-88318-923-2. Research Trends in Physics Series published by the American Institute of Physics Press
- 1997, End of Certainty, The Free Press, ISBN 0-684-83705-6
Book series
Advances in Chemical Physics, ISSN 0065-2385 Online
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