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2017 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

2. Thermodynamics of Open Systems

Authors : Alexander S. Mikhailov, Gerhard Ertl

Published in: Chemical Complexity

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

In his speech at the Prussian Academy of Sciences in 1882, the scientist Emil du Bois-Reymond, well-known at that time, has concluded: “Chemistry is not a science in the sense of the mathematical description of Nature.

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E. du Bois-Reymond, cited after: W. Ostwald, Z. Phys. Chem. 1, 1 (1887)
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E. Schrödinger, What is Life? A Physical Aspect of a Living Cell (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1944)
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I. Prigogine, Étude Thermodynamique des Phénomènes Irréversibles (Paris: Libr. Dunod; Liège: Éditions Desoer,1947)
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Metadata
Title
Thermodynamics of Open Systems
Authors
Alexander S. Mikhailov
Gerhard Ertl
Copyright Year
2017
Book
Chemical Complexity

Print ISBN: 978-3-319-57375-5

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-57377-9

Copyright Year: 2017

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57377-9_2

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