Chemical Thermodynamics by I. Prigogine and R. Defay, Longmans, 1969, Hardcover

Description: Title: Chemical Thermodynamics Author: I. Prigogine and R. Defay ISBN: Does not applyEdition Fifth Impression 1969 Format: Hardcover Language: EnglishNumber of pages: 543 PagesPublisher: Longmans, Green and Co LtdPublication Year: 1969 Printed in: United Kingdom Dimensions of the book : 24 cm x 16 cm x 3.7 cm (approximately)Book Weight: 1.017 Kg Please see all the pictures to learn more about the book.Shipping is usually via DHL, UPS, FedEx (delivery in less than 7 business days)Carefully packaged with tracking.Please message me for additional photos or questions before ordering. About the authors:Ilya Prigogine (born Jan. 25, 1917, Moscow, Russia—died May 28, 2003, Brussels, Belg.) was a Russian-born Belgian physical chemist who received the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1977 for contributions to nonequilibrium thermodynamics. Prigogine was taken to Belgium as a child. He received a doctorate in 1941 at the Free University in Brussels, where he accepted the position of professor in 1947. In 1962 he became director of the International Institute of Physics and Chemistry in Solvay, Belg. He also served as director of the Center for Statistical Mechanics and Thermodynamics at the University of Texas in Austin from 1967 until his death. Prigogine’s work dealt with the application of the second law of thermodynamics to complex systems, including living organisms. The second law states that physical systems tend to slide spontaneously and irreversibly toward a state of disorder (a process driven by an increase in entropy); it does not, however, explain how complex systems could have arisen spontaneously from less-ordered states and have maintained themselves in defiance of the tendency toward maximum entropy. Prigogine argued that as long as systems receive energy and matter from an external source, nonlinear systems (or dissipative structures, as he called them) can go through periods of instability and then self-organization, resulting in more-complex systems whose characteristics cannot be predicted except as statistical probabilities. Prigogine’s work was influential in a wide variety of fields, from physical chemistry to biology, and was fundamental to the new disciplines of chaos theory and complexity theory.

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