Ilya Prigogine

Nobel Prize lecture

Nobel Lecture, December 8, 1977

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From Nobel Lectures, Chemistry 1971-1980, Editor-in-Charge Tore Frängsmyr, Editor Sture Forsén, World Scientific Publishing Co., Singapore, 1993

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