Article ID: CBB743562275

Chaos and Beauty in a Beaker: The Early History of the Belousov-Zhabotinsky Reaction (2016)

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Discovered in 1950 by Belousov in the Soviet Union and further investigated by Zhabotinsky and his research group in the 1960s, the Belousov-Zhabotinsky reaction soon came to the wider attention of scientists on both sides of the Iron Curtain and made an important contribution to consolidating Prigogine's theory of nonequilibrium thermodynamics. Allowing scientists to study chaotic behavior in the laboratory, it also paved the way for further investigations of self-organizing systems in biology and played an important part in the formation of the field of nonlinear science. Focusing on the period between 1950 and 1975, this paper explores the early history of this enigmatic reaction.

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Authors & Contributors
Roll-Hansen, Nils
Pechenkin, Alexander A.
Konashev, Mikhail B.
Herring, Emily
Duančić, Vedran
Kessenikh, Alexandr Vladimirovich
Concepts
Biology
Chemistry
Science and politics
Self-organization
Genetics
Science and ideology
Time Periods
20th century
21st century
20th century, late
20th century, early
19th century
Places
Soviet Union
Russia
Yugoslavia
Estonia
Cracow (Poland)
United States
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