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The Ilya Prigogine Center for Studies in Statistical Mechanics and Complex Systems is a research institute within the Department of Physics of the University of Texas at Austin in the United States.
IlyaPrigogine (Russian: Илья́ Рома́нович Приго́жин) (January 25, 1917 – May 28, 2003) was a Belgian physicist and chemist noted for his work on dissipative structures, complexsystems, and irreversibility.
Prigogine was born in Moscow, Russia and studied chemistry at the Université Libre de Bruxelles in Brussels, Belgium.
Prigogine is known best for his work on dissipative structures concentrated on thermodynamic systems far from equilibrium.
IlyaPrigogine, Regental Professor of Physics and Chemical Engineering and director of the IlyaPrigogineCenter for Studies in StatisticalMechanics and ComplexSystems at The University of Texas at Austin died on May 28, 2003.
Prigogine was a leader in the fields of nonlinear chemistry and physics, whose research helped create a greater understanding of the role of time in the physical sciences and biology.
Prigogine developed the concept of “dissipative structures” to describe the coherent space-time structures that form in open systems in which an exchange of matter and energy occurs between a system and its environment.
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