Ilya Prigogine

Ilya Prigogine

male, deceased (2003)
dissipative system, thermodynamicist, complex systems, dissipative structures, scientist, Nobel Prize winner…entropy
Ilya Prigogine was a Belgian physicist and Nobel Laureate chemist noted for his work on dissipative structures, complex systems, and...
Rudolf Clausius

Rudolf Clausius

male, deceased (1888)
thermodynamics, second law of thermodynamics, thermodynamicist, entropy, German native of Pomerania, University of Bonn faculty…thermodynamic entropy
Rudolf Julius Emanuel Clausius, was a German physicist and mathematician and is considered one of the central founders of the science of...
Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen

Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen

male, deceased (1994)
University of Paris alumni, Romanian-American, From Constanta, thermodynamics, economics, mathematician…entropy
Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen, born Nicolae Georgescu was a Romanian mathematician, statistician and economist.
Robert Smithson

Robert Smithson

male, deceased (1973)
artist, Passaic, New York Times, homoerotic, Robert Morris, generative art…entropy
Robert Smithson was an American artist famous for his land art. Smithson was born in Passaic, New Jersey and studied painting and drawing in New...
Cumrun Vafa

Cumrun Vafa

male, 49 years old (Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, United States)
Harvard University, Princeton University, physicist, iranian, Princeton University alumni, Harvard University faculty…entropy
Cumrun Vafa کامران وفا is an Iranian-American leading string theorist from Harvard University where he started as a Harvard Junior Fellow. His many...
Rolf Landauer

Rolf Landauer

male, deceased (1999)
Harvard Centennial Medal recipient, Erdős number 4, entropy, heat, energy, reversible computing
Rolf Landauer was an IBM physicist who in 1961 demonstrated that when information is lost in an irreversible circuit, the information becomes...
Kathryn Erbe

Kathryn Erbe

female, 43 years old
Law & Order Criminal Intent cast, television actor, Alexandra Eames, Law & Order Criminal Intent, American, film actor…entropy, Entropy Cast
Kathryn Erbe (born July 5, 1966) is an American actress best known for her role as Det. Alexandra Eames on "Law & Order: Criminal Intent", a...
Henri Theil

Henri Theil

male, deceased (2000)
dutch, entropy, Economist, econometrics, University of Florida, erasmus university rotterdam
Henri Theil (born 13 October 1924 in Amsterdam, died 2000) was a a Dutch econometrician. He graduated from the University of Amsterdam. He was the...

Frank Lambert

male
Chemist, Harvard University alumni, American, entropy, occidental college, Frank L. Lambert
Frank L. Lambert, is a Professor Emeritus (Chemistry) of Occidental College, Los Angeles (CV). He is known for his energy dispersal conception of...

Sam Durant

male
Cal Arts, venice biennale, entropy, California Institute Of The Arts, Massachusetts College Of Art, California artist
Sam Durant (1961 -) is a Los Angeles based contemporary artist who works in a variety of media. Durant was born in Boston, Massachusetts and...