Donder

It was only in 1918 - he was then 45 years old - that De Donder could devote his time to superior teaching, after he was for some years appointed as a secondary school teacher.

Ilya Prigogine - Autobiography 1977

In this context, the great merit of De Donder was that he extracted the entropy production out of this "sfumato" when related it in a precise way to the pace of a chemical reaction, through the use of a new function that he was to call "affinity" .3

Ilya Prigogine - Autobiography 1977

See the note on De Donder in the Florilège (pedant le XIXe siècle et le début du XXe), Acad.

Ilya Prigogine - Autobiography 1977

But in the study of chemical thermodynamics, De Donder went further, and he gave a new formulation of the second principle, based on such concepts as affinity and degree of evolution of a reaction, considered as

Ilya Prigogine - Autobiography 1977

During his inaugural lecture, De Donder spoke in these terms: 51 "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 ..."

Ilya Prigogine - Autobiography 1977

De Donder, of course, had precursors, especially in the French thermodynamics school of Pierre Duhem.

Ilya Prigogine - Autobiography 1977

'Donder!' says the gaffer in the tay-thray hat and the beard like the grandfather av all the billygoats.

The Dop Doctor Richard Dehan 1897

Donder, who reared and emitted a loud, protesting snort of pain.

Heart of the West [Annotated] O. Henry 1886

"Donder en Bliksem" (thunder and lightning), cried the vrouw.

Dutch Fairy Tales for Young Folks William Elliot Griffis 1885

Donder und Blitzen! 'or whatever they do yell when they are mad with joy.

Fiddles 1909 Francis Hopkinson Smith 1876