Paul Glansdorff

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Paul Gustave Glansdorff (born October 17, 1904 in Sint-Gillis , Brussels , † June 23, 1999 in Uccle ) was a Belgian physicist who, along with Ilya Prigogine, is known for developing the theory of dissipative structures in irreversible thermodynamics .

Glansdorff attended the Atheneum in Sint-Gillis and studied at the Free University of Brussels with a degree in engineering in 1930. He then carried out research for the Belgian national science organization NFWO at the Polytechnic in Bergen and from 1937 for the Union Chimique Belge, whose research he led . In 1941 he became an associate professor for thermodynamics at the polytechnic in Bergen and in the same function in 1946 at the Free University of Brussels (FLB), from 1954 as a full professor. In 1975 he retired. He also continued his lectures at the Polytechnic after being appointed professor at the FLB.

In 1961 he became a corresponding and in 1971 full member of the Académie royale des Sciences, des Lettres et des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, whose science division he headed in 1977. He was also a foreign member of the Academy of Sciences in Padua.

He was a Knight of the Legion of Honor (1958) and a Grand Officer of the Order of the Leopold .

In 1988 he received an honorary doctorate in Bordeaux.

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  • with Prigogine: Thermodynamic Theory of Structure, Stability, and Fluctuations . Wiley 1971.

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