CHEMIST

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

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ilya Prigogine has received more than 656,521 page views. His biography is available in 67 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 61 in 2019). Ilya Prigogine is the 31st most popular chemist (up from 41st in 2019), the 106th most popular biography from Russia (up from 142nd 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 31 out of 602. Before him are Albert Hofmann, Otto Wallach, Humphry Davy, Justus von Liebig, Casimir Funk, and John Howard Northrop. After him are Walther Nernst, Robert Bunsen, Henrik Dam, Tu Youyou, John Stith Pemberton, and Gertrude B. Elion.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1917, Ilya Prigogine ranks 6. Before him are John F. Kennedy, Park Chung-hee, Indira Gandhi, Heinrich Böll, and Arthur C. Clarke. After him are Ella Fitzgerald, Dean Martin, Eric Hobsbawm, Frederica of Hanover, I. M. Pei, and Ferdinand Marcos. Among people deceased in 2003, Ilya Prigogine ranks 13. Before him are Robert K. Merton, Alija Izetbegović, Gregory Peck, Johnny Cash, Barry White, and Maurice Gibb. After him are Nina Simone, Soong Mei-ling, Edward Said, Alan Bates, Elia Kazan, and Leopoldo Galtieri.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Ilya Prigogine ranks 106 out of 3,761. Before him are Sofia Kovalevskaya (1850), Alexander Alekhine (1892), Mikhail Tukhachevsky (1893), Konstantin Tsiolkovsky (1857), Nadezhda Krupskaya (1869), and Tokhtamysh (1342). After him are Sergey Lavrov (1950), Vladimir Komarov (1927), Shamil, 3rd Imam of Dagestan (1797), Mikhail Lomonosov (1711), Boris Spassky (1937), and Grigory Potemkin (1739).

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Among CHEMISTS In Russia

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

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