# Ilya Prigogine

In existographies, Ilya Prigogine (38 BE-48 AE) (1917-2003 ACM) (IQ:170|#509) (TR:415) (LH:4) (TL:420) was a Russian-born Belgian physical chemist, noted for []

## Quotes

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The following are quotes by Prigogine:

“Thermodynamic equilibrium may be characterized by the minimum of the Helmholtz free energy defined usually by: ${\displaystyle F=E-TS}$. Are most types of ‘organisations’ around us of this nature? It is enough to ask such a question to see that the answer is negative. Obviously in a town, in a living system, we have a quite different type of functional order. To obtain a thermodynamic theory for this type of structure we have to show that that non-equilibrium may be a source of order. Irreversible processes may lead to a new type of dynamic states of matter which I have called ‘dissipative structures’.”
— Ilya Prigogine (1977), “Time, Structure and Fluctuations” [1]

## References

1. Prigogine, Ilya. (1977). “Time, Structure and Fluctuations” (pdf), Nobel Lecture, Dec. 08.