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mazur lecturing on non-equilibrium thermodynamics in trondheim , 1967 sybren de groot 15 august 2001 lausanne , switzerland university of leiden vienna , austria december 11 , 1922 non-equilibrium thermodynamics 20px petermazur1.jpg peter mazur
 peter mazur university of utrecht
peter mazur

peter mazur -lrb- b. vienna , austria , december 11 , 1922 - d. lausanne , switzerland , august 15 , 2001 -rrb- was an austrian-born , dutch physicist and one of the founders of the field of non-equilibrium thermodynamics .
he is the father of harvard university physics professor eric mazur .
