When1: 1980
When2: 1989
Who: Ilya Prigogine [Prigogine, Ilya]
What: physicist
Where: USA
works\ From Being to Becoming [1980]; Order out of Chaos [1984: with Stengers]; Exploring Complexity [1989: with Gregoire Nicolis]
Detail: He lived 1917 to 2003. Dissipative-structure subsystems can reduce entropy, if energy is available and subsystems use only their own processes.
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