Ilya Prigogine (1917-2003)

Awarded the Prize “for his contributions to non-equilibrium thermodynamics, particularly the theory of dissipative structures.”

Belgian physical chemist. Prigogine was born on January 25, 1917 in Moscow, Russia. He was taken to Belgium as a child acquired Belgian nationality in 1949. He received his Ph.D. in 1942 at the Free University in Brussels, where he accepted of professorship in 1947. In 1962 he became Director of the International Institute of Physics Chemistry. He also served as Director of the Center for Statistical Mechanics Thermodynamics at the University of Texas. Prigogine died on May 28, 2003 in Brussels, Belgium.