What was Ilya Prigogine's field of study?
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Ilya Prigogine was a Russian-born Belgian physical chemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1977 for his work on dissipative structures. Dissipative structures are systems that maintain a state of order by dissipating energy in their surroundings. Prigogine's work showed that these systems can spontaneously form order from disorder, even in the presence of entropy.
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