The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1977
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Ilya Prigogine
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The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1977 was awarded to Ilya Prigogine "for his contributions to non-equilibrium thermodynamics, particularly the theory of dissipative structures."
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