In human thermodynamics, Marlan Blissett (c.1933-) is an American political scientist noted for his 1972 book Politics in Science, in which he speculates on the laws of social thermodynamics in his chapter “Big Science and the Laws of Social Thermodynamics”, covering topics in both sociological thermodynamics and political thermodynamics. The following is an example excerpt from the book: [1]

“All areas of social and political space must be constantly affirmed against the entropy of an ‘environment’ – whether, for example, the activity involves the clarification of points between a central government and a state in a federal system.”

In the book, Blissett cites American mathematical biophysicist Alvin Weinberg’s classical thermodynamics views (1967) and Leo Szilard’s 1929 paper on entropy and information. [2]

Background
In 1968, Blissett was an assistant professor at the University of Nebraska. [3] Blissett's PhD dissertation may have been the 1969 “The Politics of Professionalized Science.” [4] In the 1970s and 1980s, Blissett seems to have been associated with the University of Texas at Austin, and their Center for Energy Studies, Energy Research. Blissett collaborated with American ecologist Howard Odum in 1987, on the topic of emergy analysis.

References
1. Blissett, Marlan. (1972). Politics in Science (section: Big Science and the Laws of Social Thermodynamics, pg. 25-35; term: entropy, pgs. 26, 53, 66, etc.). Little, Brown and Co.
2. (a) Szilárd, Leó. (1929). “On the Decrease in Entropy in a Thermodynamic System by the Intervention of Intelligent Beings”, Zeitschrift fur Physik, 53, 840-56.
(b) Weinberg, Alvin M. (1967). Reflections on Big Science. MIT Press.
3. Anon. (1969). Political Science (Marlan Blissett, pg. 56). American Political Science Association.
4. Blissett, Marlan. (1969). The Politics of Professionalized Science. University of Texas at Auston.

External links
● Marlan Blissett – OpenLibrary.org.
● Blissett, Marlan (WorldCat Identities) – WorldCat.org.