| Jou, Casas-Vazquez, Lebon (1993)<ref name="JCVL 1993">Jou, D., Casas-Vázquez, J., Lebon, G. (1993). ''Extended Irreversible Thermodynamics'', Springer, Berlin, {{ISBN|3-540-55874-8}}, {{ISBN|0-387-55874-8}}.</ref> note that classical non-equilibrium thermodynamics "has seen an extraordinary expansion since the second world war", and they refer to the Nobel prizes for work in the field awarded to [[Lars Onsager]] and [[Ilya Prigogine]]. Martyushev and Seleznev (2006)<ref name="M&S 2006"/> note the importance of entropy in the evolution of natural dynamical structures: "Great contribution has been done in this respect by two scientists, namely [[Rudolf Clausius|Clausius]], ... , and [[Ilya Prigogine|Prigogine]]." Prigogine in his 1977 Nobel Lecture<ref>[http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/1977/prigogine-lecture.pdf Prigogine, I. (1977). Time, Structure and Fluctuations, Nobel Lecture.]</ref> said: "... non-equilibrium may be a source of order. Irreversible processes may lead to a new type of dynamic states of matter which I have called “dissipative structures”." Glansdorff and Prigogine (1971)<ref name="G&P 1971"/> wrote on page xx: "Such 'symmetry breaking instabilities' are of special interest as they lead to a spontaneous 'self-organization' of the system both from the point of view of its ''space order'' and its ''function''." | | Jou, Casas-Vazquez, Lebon (1993)<ref name="JCVL 1993">Jou, D., Casas-Vázquez, J., Lebon, G. (1993). ''Extended Irreversible Thermodynamics'', Springer, Berlin, {{ISBN|3-540-55874-8}}, {{ISBN|0-387-55874-8}}.</ref> note that classical non-equilibrium thermodynamics "has seen an extraordinary expansion since the second world war", and they refer to the Nobel prizes for work in the field awarded to [[Lars Onsager]] and [[Ilya Prigogine]]. Martyushev and Seleznev (2006)<ref name="M&S 2006"/> note the importance of entropy in the evolution of natural dynamical structures: "Great contribution has been done in this respect by two scientists, namely [[Rudolf Clausius|Clausius]], ... , and [[Ilya Prigogine|Prigogine]]." Prigogine in his 1977 Nobel Lecture<ref>[http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/1977/prigogine-lecture.pdf Prigogine, I. (1977). Time, Structure and Fluctuations, Nobel Lecture.]</ref> said: "... non-equilibrium may be a source of order. Irreversible processes may lead to a new type of dynamic states of matter which I have called “dissipative structures”." Glansdorff and Prigogine (1971)<ref name="G&P 1971"/> wrote on page xx: "Such 'symmetry breaking instabilities' are of special interest as they lead to a spontaneous 'self-organization' of the system both from the point of view of its ''space order'' and its ''function''." |