Ilya Prigogine

25 January 1917 – 28 March 2003

Ilya Prigogine was born in Moscow on January 25, 1917, a few months before the Russian Revolution. His family fled Russia soon after the Revolution and moved to Germany. When Prigogine was still a young boy his family moved again to Belgium. Prigogine obtained an undergraduate degree and, in 1941, a doctorate from the Université Libre de Bruxelles. Prigogine concentrated his career on better understanding the role of time's impact on biological processes. His work has contributed greatly to the understanding of irreversible processes. He was a professor of Physics and Chemical engineerin