Ilya Prigogine
Ilya Prigogine , 1917-2003, Belgian chemist, b. Moscow. He was raised and educated in Belgium, receiving his doctorate in 1941 and joining the faculty of the Free Univ. of Brussels in 1947. In 1959 he became director of the International Solvay Institutes in Brussels, a position he held until his death. He also founded and served as director (1967-2003) of what is now the Ilya Prigogine Center for Studies in Statistical Mechanics and Complex Systems at the Univ. of Texas at Austin. For his development of mathematical models of irreversible thermodynamics (as opposed to the classical reversible systems), he was awarded the 1977 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Prigogine's work was important in the development of the field of complexity .
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Dancing to a different tune from that of his political family
Newspaper article from: The Irish Times; 10/14/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...minister, George Papandreou, but his brother...you are 10 and George is 15), if your...War, grandfather George (1888-1968) led the government...For "old" George, the sense of...this chimes with Papandreou politics. It...
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George Papandreou
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
George Papandreou (Georgios Andreou Papandreou) pä&180;pendrā...leader, b. Minnesota. The son of Andreas Papandreou and grandson of George Papandreou (1888-1968), he spent much of his first three decades...
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Andreas Georgiou Papandreou
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...1919-96, Greek political leader, premier of Greece (1981-89, 1993-96), son of George Papandreou (1888-1968) and father of George Papandreou (1952-). He was jailed and tortured in 1939 and left for the United States in 1940...
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