Myron Wyn Evans was a Welsh chemist and physicist who helped develop the Einstein-Cartan-Evans theory or ECE theory, which claimed to unify general relativity, quantum mechanics and electromagnetism.
Viscount Ilya Romanovich Prigogine was a physical chemist and Nobel laureate noted for his work on dissipative structures, complex systems, and irreversibility.

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