Ilya Prigogine

Ilya PrigogineIlya Romanovich Prigogine () (25 January 1917 – 28 May 2003) was a Belgian physical chemist of Russian Jewish descent.www.telegraph.co.uk He won the 1977 Nobel Prize for Chemistry.NobelPrize.org, "Ilya Prigogine"; retrieved 2012-9-19.

Prigogine studied chemistry at the Free University of Brussels.  In 1950 he became a professor there.  In 1959 he started teaching at the University of Texas at Austin in the United States.

Prigogine was married to Belgian poet Hélène Jofé. After their divorce, he married Polish-born chemist Maria Prokopowicz in 1961.

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