Théophile de Donder

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Theophile de Donder [1872 – 1957] was a Belgian thermodynamicist, mathematician, and physicist famous for his 1923 work in developing correlations between the Newtonian concept of chemical affinity and the Gibbsian concept of free energy. He received his doctorate in physics and mathematics from the University of Brussels in 1899. He is considered the father of thermodynamics of irreversible processes.^[1] De Donder’s work was later developed further by Ilya Prigogine. De Donder was an associate and friend of Albert Einstein.

Contents 1 Publications 2 See also 3 References 4 External links

[edit] Publications

• de Donder, T. (1936). Thermodynamic Theory of Affinity: A Book of Principles. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press.
• de Donder, T. (1927). The Mathematical Theory of Relativity. Cambridge, MA: MIT

[edit] See also

• Chemical affinity
• Chemical thermodynamics

[edit] References

1. ^ Perrot, Pierre (1998). A to Z of Thermodynamics. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0198565569. 

[edit] External links

• Theophile de Donder - Science World at Wolfram.com