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Théophile Ernest de Donder was a Belgian mathematician and physicist famous for his work in developing correlations between the Newtonian concept of chemical affinity and the Gibbsian concept of free energy. Wikipedia  

✵ 19. August 1872 – 11. May 1957
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Théophile de Donder Quotes

“Mathematical physics represents the purest image that the view of nature may generate in the human mind; this image presents all the character of the product of art; it begets some unity, it is true and has the quality of sublimity; this image is to physical nature what music is to the thousand noises of which the air is full…”

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as quoted by Ilya Prigogine in his Autobiography http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/1977/prigogine-autobio.html given at the occasion of Prigogine's 1977 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

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