‎PRIGOGINE Ilya - Raymond. DEFAY‎
‎Thermodynamique Chimique conformement aux méthodes de Gibbs et de De Donder. Tôme I & Tôme II (PROOF COPIES CORRECTED BY THE AUTHOR) .‎

‎" Liège Éditions Desoer; Paris, Gauthier-Villars, 1944 (Vol. I) - 1946 (Vol. II). [1] xvi +347 ; [2] 331 pp. Proof copies (exemplaire d'épreuve) send by Desoer to Prigogine and extensively corrected in his hand (partly in pencil, or in ink). Unbound, printed on thin coloured paper, each volume kept in a steel spring binder, Some pagination numbers have been added in ink or penciL Most of the correction made by the author deal with the complicated mathematical formulas. On the title page of volume II Prigogine deletes his scientific title and changes it to ''Agrégé de l'enseignement supérieur''. (university professor). Well preserved proof copy , corrected by the hand of the author, of the first major work on chemical thermodynamics by the Russian born Belgian scientist Ilya Prigogine (Moscou 1917 - Brussels 2003) He received the Nobelprize of Chemistry in 1977 for his work in this field.Unique copy documenting the important Belgian-Jewish contribution to the exact sciences in the 20th c."‎

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