Ilya Prigogine

Viscount Ilya Romanovich Prigogine (/prɪˈɡoʊʒiːn/; 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.[1][2][3][4][5] 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”,[6] as well as the Francqui Prize in 1955, and the Rumford Medal in 1976. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilya_Prigogine

Cosma Shalizi: http://bactra.org/notebooks/prigogine.html