Ilya Prigogine

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 …