Basarab NICOLESCU*

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Theoretical physicist at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire de Physique Nucléaire et de Hautes Énergies, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris.
Docteur ès-Sciences Physiques (PhD), 1972, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris.

President and founder of the International Center for Transdisciplinary Research and Studies (CIRET), a non-profit organization (170 members from 22 countries), which has a web site at :
http://perso.club-internet.fr/nicol/ciret/
E-mail : nicol@club-internet.fr

Co-founder, with René Berger of the Study Group on Transdisciplinarity at UNESCO (1992).
Founder and Director of the Transdisciplinarity Series, Rocher Editions, Monaco.
Member of the Editorial Board of the review Mémoire du XX^e siècle, Paris.

A specialist in the theory of elementary particles, Basarab Nicolescu is the author of more than one hundred articles in leading international scientific journals, has made numerous contributions to science anthologies and participated in several dozens French radio and multimedia documentaries on science.

Basarab Nicolescu is a major advocate of the transdisciplinary reconciliation between Science and the Humanities. He published many articles on the role of science in the contemporary culture in journals in France, in Romania, in Italy, in United Kingdom, in Brazil, in Argentina, in Syria, in Japan and in USA.

A BIOGRAPHICAL PROFILE OF BASARAB NICOLESCU IS INCLUDED IN :

- Who's Who in the World, 11th - 16th editions, Marquis Publishing Co., USA, 1992-2002
- Who's Who in Science and Engineering, 3rd - 6th editions, Marquis Publishing Co., USA, 1996-2002
- Romanians in Western Science and Culture, American-Romanian Academy Publications, USA, 1992

AWARDS AND PRIZES :

- Great Officer, Order "Faithful Service", Romania, 2002.
- Member of the Romanian Academy, 2001
- Doctor Honoris Causa of the University "Alexandru Ioan Cuza", Iasi, Romania, 2000
- Prize of the Union of Writers of Romania, 1993
- Benjamin Franklin Award for Best History Book, USA, 1992, for the book "Science, Meaning and Evolution - The Cosmology of Jacob Boehme"
- Silver Medal of the French Academy, 1986, for the book "Nous, la particule et le monde". The same book has been selected by "Universalia 1986", Encyclopaedia Universalis Editions
- Gold Medal at the First International Olympiad of Mathematics, Brasov, Romania, 1959
BOOKS :

- Le tiers secrètement inclus, Babel Éditeur, Mazamet, France, 2003, illustré par Frédéric Benrath.
- Nous, la particule et le monde, Le Mail, Paris, 1985; 2nd edition : Le Rocher, Monaco, 2002 (translated in Romania and in Greece)
- Les racines de la liberté, Accarias-L'Originel, Paris, 2001, in collaboration with Michel Camus
- La transdisciplinarité, manifeste, Le Rocher, Monaco, 1996 (translated in USA, in Brazil, in Portugal, in Syria and Romania)
- Théorèmes poétiques, Le Rocher, Monaco, 1994, foreward by Michel Camus (translated in Romania)
- L'homme et le sens de l'Univers - Essai sur Jacob Boehme, Le Félin - Philippe Lebaud, Paris, 1988, 2nd edition in 1995 (translated in USA, Brazil and Romania)
- Ion Barbu - Cosmologia "Jocului Secund", Editura pentru Literatura, Bucarest, 1968, in Romanian

ENGLISH TEXTS AND TRANSLATIONS :

- Manifesto of Transdisciplinarity, State University of New York (SUNY) Press, New York, 2002, translated from French by Karen-Claire Voss.

- Science, Meaning and Evolution - The Cosmology of Jacob Boehme , with selected texts by Jacob Boehme, translated from the French by Rob Baker, foreword by Joscelyn Godwin, afterword by Antoine Faivre, Parabola Books, New York, 1991

- A New Vision of the World - Transdisciplinarity, in The Design and Delivery of Inter- and Pluridisciplinary Research, Proceedings of the Muscipoli Workshop Two, The Danish Institute for Studies in Reasearch and Research Policy, Danemark, 2002, pp. 108-111.

- In vitro and in vivo knowledge / Conoscenza "in vitro" ed "in vivo", in Unità del sapere e del fare: una soluzione transdisciplinare?, Istituto per Ricerche ed Attività Educative, Napoli, Italie, 2001, pp. 81-100, sous la direction de Ezio Mariani.

- Transdisciplinarity and Complexity : Levels of Reality as Source of Indeterminacy, in Determinismo e Complessità, Armando Editore, Roma, 2000, pp. 127-142, edited by F. Tito Arecchi.

- Hylemorphism, Quantum Physics and Levels of Reality, in Aristotle and Contemporary Science, Vol. I, Peter Lang, New York, 2000, pp. 173-184, edited by Demetra Sfendoni-Mentzou, introduction by Hilary Putnam.

- Gödelian Aspects of Nature and Knowledge, in Systems - New Paradigms for the Human Sciences, De Gruyter, Berlin, 1998, translation from French by Karen-Claire Voss, pp. 385-403, edited by Gabriel Altmann and Walter A. Koch.

- Levels of Representation and Levels of Reality: Towards an Ontology of Science, in The Concept of Nature in Science and Theology (part II), in collaboration with Michel Camus, Thierry Magnin et Karen-Claire Voss, Éditions Labor et Fides, Genève, 1998, pp. 94-103, edited by Niels H. Gregersen, Michael W.S. Parsons and Christoph Wassermann.

- Peter Brook and Traditional Thought, in Contemporary Theater Review, Vol.7, Part 1, 1997, Harwood Academic Publishers, Amsterdam, translated from the French by David Williams (translated also in Japanese)

- In the Valley of Astonishment, an interview with Basarab Nicolescu by Jean Biès, in Parabola, Vol.XXII, No.4, Winter 1997, New York

- Levels of Complexity and Levels of Reality, in "The Emergence of Complexity in Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, and Biology", Proceedings of the Plenary Session of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, 27-31 October 1992, Casina Pio IV, Vatican, Pontificia Academia Scientiarum Editions, Vatican City, 1996 (distributed by Princeton University Press)

- Science as Testimony, in "Science and the Boundaries of Knowledge", Proceedings of the Venice Symposium, UNESCO Editions, Paris, 1986 (translated in Spanish and many other languages)

PORTUGUESE TEXTS AND TRANSLATIONS :

- O Manifesto da Transdisciplinaridade, Triom, São Paulo, 1999, 2e ediçao: 2001, translation in Portuguese by Lucia Pereira de Souza.
- Manifesto da Transdisciplinaridade, Hugin, Lisbonne, 2000, translation in Portuguese by Bardus.
- Ciência, Sentido § Evoluçao - A cosmologia de Jacob Boehme, Attar Editorial, São Paulo, 1995, translation in Portuguese by Américo Sommerman.
- O Homen e as Suas Três Éticas, Stéphane Lupasco com a colaboraçao de Solange de Mailly-Nesle e Basarab Nicolescu, Instituto Piaget, Lisbonne, 1994, translation in Portuguese by Armando Pereira da Silva.
- O terceiro incluído - Da física quântica à ontologia, in Stéphane Lupasco - O Homem e a Obra, Édition TRIOM e Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, 2001, translation in Portuguese by Lucia Pereira de Souza.
- Um Novo Tipo de Conheciemento - Transdisciplinaridade, in Educaçao e transdisciplinaridade, Edições UNESCO Brasil, Brasilia, 2000, pp. 13-30, in collaboration with Humberto Maturana et al., edited by Judite Vero, Maria de Mello and Américo Sommerman.
- Uma transdisciplinaridade planetária para viver e sobreviver, in Michel Random, O pensamento transdisciplinar e o Real, éditions TRIOM, São Paulo, 2000, traduction de Lucia Pereira de Souza.
- A prática da transdisciplinaridade
http://www.cetrans.futuro.usp.br/palestra_basarab.htm

RECENT ANTHOLOGY CONTRIBUTIONS :

- Connaissance in vitro et in vivo, inInterdisziplinäres Lehren und Lernen - Zwichen akademischem Anspruch und gesellschaftichem Bedürfnis / Interdisciplinarité, enseignement et apprentissage - Entre exigences académiques et besoins sociaux, Réalités Sociales, Laussanne, Suisse, 2002, pp. 141-156, sous la direction de Pasqualina Perrig-Chiello et Werner Arber.
- Le cyber-espace-temps et l'imaginaire visionnaire, in Penser les réseaux, Champ Vallon, 2001, pp. 49-53, sous la direction de Daniel Parrochia.
- Fondements méthodologiques du dialogue transculturel, in Francophonie et dialogue des cultures dans le monde arabe, Publications de l'Université Libanaise, Beyrouth, 2001, pp. 336-355, sous la direction de Zahida Darwiche Jabbour.
- Vers une éducation transdisciplinaire, in L'universel et le singulier - L'éducation comme dialectique: expériences et recherches, Actes du IX^e Colloque International de l'Association Francophone Internationale de Recherche Scientifique en Éducation, AFIRSE, Université Rennes - Haute Bretagne, 2001, pp. 7-16, sous la direction de Patrick Boumard et Rose-Marie Bouvet.
- Fondation méthodologique des études transculturelles et transreligieuses, in L'Europe en quête d'harmonie, Rencontres Européennes de Cluny, La Maison sur le Monde, Mazille, France, 2001, pp. 258-288.
- Adonis, un homme libre, in Adonis - Un poéte dans le monde d'aujourd'hui (1950-2000), Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris, 2000, pp. 149-152, sous la direction d'Alain Jouffroy.

EDITOR OF COLLECTIVE WORKS :

-L'homme, la science et la Nature - Regards transdisciplinaires, Le Mail, Paris, 1994, in collaboration with Michel Cazenave
- Le temps dans les sciences, L'Harmattan, 1995, Paris, in collaboration with Norbert Dodille and Christian Duhamel
- Stéphane Lupasco - L'homme et l'oeuvre, en collaboration avec Horia Badescu, Rocher, Monaco, coll. "Transdisciplinarité", Paris, 1999 ; translated in Portuguese (Brazil)

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* The complete biobibliography of Basarab Nicolescu can be found on the Internet site
http://perso.club-internet.fr/nicol/ciret/biobn/biobn.htm