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Ilya Prigogine

1917 - 2003

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Viscount Ilya Romanovich Prigogine (; Russian: Илья́ Рома́нович Приго́жин; 25 January [O.S. 12 January] 1917 – 28 May 2003) was a Belgian physical chemist of Russian-Jewish origin, noted for his work on dissipative structures, complex systems, and irreversibility. Prigogine's work most notably earned him the 1977 Nobel Prize in Chemistry “for his contributions to non-equilibrium thermodynamics, particularly the theory of dissipative structures”, as well as the Francqui Prize in 1955, and the Rumford Medal in 1976. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Ilya Prigogine is the 64th most popular chemist (down from 31st in 2019), the 104th most popular biography from Russia (up from 106th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Russian Chemist.

Ilya Prigogine is most famous for his work in the field of thermodynamics. He is most famous for his work on dissipative structures and self-organization.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Ilya Prigogine ranks 64 out of 602. Before him are Frederick Soddy, Kurt Alder, Earl Wilbur Sutherland Jr., Francis William Aston, Norman Haworth, and John Howard Northrop. After him are Leopold Ružička, Wendell Meredith Stanley, Henry Hallett Dale, Gerty Cori, Vladimir Prelog, and Gertrude B. Elion.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1917, Ilya Prigogine ranks 9. Before him are Ferdinand Marcos, Park Chung-hee, Heinrich Böll, John Fenn, Arthur C. Clarke, and Rodney Robert Porter. After him are Frederica of Hanover, James Rainwater, Christian de Duve, Ella Fitzgerald, Marsha Hunt, and John Kendrew. Among people deceased in 2003, Ilya Prigogine ranks 13. Before him are Johnny Cash, Gregory Peck, Alija Izetbegović, Barry White, Robert K. Merton, and Maurice Gibb. After him are Nina Simone, Nǃxau ǂToma, Zoran Đinđić, Edward Said, Elia Kazan, and Donald Davidson.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Ilya Prigogine ranks 104 out of 3,761. Before him are Michael of Russia (1596), Alexander Suvorov (1730), Mikhail Lomonosov (1711), Lev Kamenev (1883), Alexander Alekhine (1892), and Nikolai Bukharin (1888). After him are Sofia Kovalevskaya (1850), Nikolai Yezhov (1895), Mikhail Bakhtin (1895), Mikhail Botvinnik (1911), Arnold Sommerfeld (1868), and Tokhtamysh (1342).

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Among CHEMISTS In Russia

Among chemists born in Russia, Ilya Prigogine ranks 4. Before him are Dmitri Mendeleev (1834), Otto Wallach (1847), and Paul Karrer (1889). After him are Valery Legasov (1936), Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky (1863), Fritz Albert Lipmann (1899), Nikolay Semyonov (1896), Vladimir Markovnikov (1838), Alexander Mikhaylovich Zaytsev (1841), Alexander Butlerov (1828), and Friedrich Konrad Beilstein (1838).

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