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Ilya Prigogine
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Ilya Prigogine

1917 – 2003 · aged 86

Russian-Belgian physical chemist (1917–2003)

Born
1917 · Moscow
Died
28 May 2003 · Brussels metropolitan area
Part ofBelgium54 BCE – todayRussia1223 – todayRussian Empire1681 – 1922

Life timeline

Their life from birth to death. On the timeline, world events of the time are shown faintly.

Showing 99 years
  1. 1917BornBorn in Moscow
  2. 1955AwardFrancqui Prize
  3. 1966AwardHonorary doctor of the University of Poitiers
  4. 1972AwardBourke Award
  5. 1972AwardHonorary doctorate from University of Bordeaux-I
  6. 1975AwardCothenius Medal
  7. 1976AwardRumford Medal
  8. 1977AwardNobel Prize in Chemistry
  9. 1978AwardHonorary doctor of the Paul Cézanne University
  10. 1983AwardHonda Prize
  11. 1986AwardHonorary doctorate of Tours University
  12. 1991AwardHonorary doctorate from the University of Nice-Sophia Antipolis
  13. 1994AwardKampé de Fériet Award
  14. 28 May 2003DiedDied in Brussels metropolitan area

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Meanwhile in the world

Major world events during their lifetime (1917 – 2003).

  1. 1917Balfour Declaration
  2. 1917February Revolution
  3. 1917October Revolution
  4. 1917 – 1922Russian Civil War
  5. 1919 – 1920Paris Peace Conference
  6. 1920Treaty of Versailles
  7. 1933 – 1945The Holocaust
  8. 19341934 FIFA World Cup
  9. 19361936 Summer Olympics
  10. 1937 – 1945Second Sino-Japanese War
  11. 19381938 FIFA World Cup
  12. 1938Munich Agreement
  13. 1939 – 1940Winter War
  14. 1939 – 1945World War II
  15. 1940 – 1945Auschwitz concentration camp
  16. 1941Attack on Pearl Harbor
  17. 1941 – 1945Eastern Front
  18. 1941Operation Barbarossa
  19. 1942 – 1943Battle of Stalingrad
  20. 1945Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
  21. 1945 – 1946Nuremberg trials
  22. 19501950 FIFA World Cup
  23. 1950 – 1953Korean War
  24. 1953 – 1959Cuban Revolution
  25. 19541954 FIFA World Cup
  26. 1955 – 1975Vietnam War
  27. 1956Hungarian Revolution of 1956
  28. 1956Suez Crisis
  29. 19581958 FIFA World Cup
  30. 1959Antarctic Treaty System
  31. 19621962 FIFA World Cup
  32. 1962Cuban Missile Crisis
  33. 19661966 FIFA World Cup
  34. 1966 – 1976Cultural Revolution
  35. 1968Prague Spring
  36. 1969Apollo 11 Moon landing
  37. 19721972 Summer Olympics
  38. 19741974 FIFA World Cup
  39. 19781978 FIFA World Cup
  40. 1978 – 1979Iranian Revolution

Biography

Viscount Ilya Romanovich Prigogine (Russian: Илья Романович Пригожин; 25 January [O.S. 12 January] 1917 – 28 May 2003) was a Belgian physical chemist of Russian 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.

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