Editing Timeline of thermodynamics (section)

== 1945–present ==
* 1945–1946&nbsp;– [[Nikolay Bogoliubov]] develops a general method for a microscopic derivation of kinetic equations for classical statistical systems using [[BBGKY hierarchy]]<ref name="a">{{cite journal|author=N. N. Bogoliubov|author-link=Nikolay Bogoliubov|title=Kinetic Equations|journal=[[JETP|Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Physics]]|volume=16|issue=8|pages=691–702|year=1946|language=ru}}</ref><ref name="b">{{cite journal|author=N. N. Bogoliubov|author-link=Nikolay Bogoliubov|title=Kinetic Equations|journal=Journal of Physics USSR|volume=10|issue=3|pages=265–274|year=1946}}</ref>
* 1947&nbsp;– [[Nikolay Bogoliubov]] and [[Kirill Gurov]] extend this method for a microscopic derivation of kinetic equations for quantum statistical systems
* 1948&nbsp;– [[Claude Elwood Shannon]] establishes [[information theory]]<ref>{{Cite book|last=Shannon, Claude Elwood, 1916-2001.|url=http://worldcat.org/oclc/967725093|title=The mathematical theory of communication|date=September 1998|isbn=978-0-252-09803-1|oclc=967725093}}</ref>
* 1957&nbsp;– [[Aleksandr Solomonovich Kompaneets]] derives his Compton scattering [[Fokker–Planck equation]]
* 1957&nbsp;– [[Ryogo Kubo]] derives the first of the [[Green-Kubo relations]] for linear transport coefficients <ref>{{Cite journal|last=Kubo|first=Ryogo|date=1957-06-15|title=Statistical-Mechanical Theory of Irreversible Processes. I. General Theory and Simple Applications to Magnetic and Conduction Problems|url=http://journals.jps.jp/doi/10.1143/JPSJ.12.570|journal=Journal of the Physical Society of Japan|language=en|volume=12|issue=6|pages=570–586|doi=10.1143/JPSJ.12.570|bibcode=1957JPSJ...12..570K |issn=0031-9015}}</ref>
* 1957&nbsp;– [[Edwin T. Jaynes]] publishes two papers detailing the [[Maximum entropy thermodynamics|MaxEnt interpretation]] of thermodynamics from information theory <ref>{{cite journal |author=Jaynes, E.T. |title=Information theory and statistical mechanics |journal=Physical Review |volume=106 |issue=4 |pages=620–630 |year=1957 |doi=10.1103/PhysRev.106.620 |url=http://bayes.wustl.edu/etj/articles/theory.1.pdf |bibcode=1957PhRv..106..620J}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |author=Jaynes, E.T. |author-mask=1 |title=Information theory and statistical mechanics II |journal=Physical Review |volume=108 |issue=2 |pages=171–190 |year=1957 |doi=10.1103/PhysRev.108.171 |url=http://bayes.wustl.edu/etj/articles/theory.2.pdf |bibcode=1957PhRv..108..171J}}</ref>
* 1960–1965&nbsp;– [[Dmitry Zubarev]] develops the method of [[non-equilibrium statistical operator]], which becomes a classical tool in the statistical theory of non-equilibrium processes
* 1972&nbsp;– [[Jacob Bekenstein]] suggests that [[black holes]] have an entropy proportional to their surface area
* 1974&nbsp;– [[Stephen Hawking]] predicts that black holes will [[Hawking radiation|radiate]] particles with a black-body spectrum which can cause black hole evaporation
*1977&nbsp;– [[Ilya Prigogine]] wins the Nobel prize for his work on [[dissipative structures]] in thermodynamic systems far from equilibrium.  The importation and dissipation of energy could reverse the 2nd law of thermodynamics