Ilya Prigogine (1917-2003)

Ilya Prigogine is a Belgian physicist and chemist of Russian origin. He is awarded the 1977 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his research on dissipative structures far from equilibrium. Ilya Prigogine is also awarded the Rumford Medal in 1976 and many other scientific prizes. After graduating in chemistry and physics at Université libre de Bruxelles (1939), Ilya Prigogine obtained a PhD in chemistry at the same university in 1941 under the supervision of Théophile de Donder, whose research he continued. He pursued his entire career at Université libre de Bruxelles as well as the University of Austin (Texas). A multidisciplinary and polymorphous thinker, Ilya Prigogine also developed a body of work relative to the philosophy of sciences and to the relations between science and culture. 

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