Basarab Nicolescu (born March 25, 1942,Ploieşti,Romania) is an honorarytheoretical physicist at theCentre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire de Physique Nucléaire et de Hautes Énergies,Université Pierre et Marie Curie,Paris. He is also a professor at theBabeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca,Romania and Docteur ès-Sciences Physiques (PhD), 1972, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris. He was appointed Professor Extraordinary at Stellenbosch University, South Africa for the period 1 January 2011 to 31 December 2016 and was elected as Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study (STIAS) Fellow in 2011.
In addition, he is the co-founder, with René Berger, of the Study Group onTransdisciplinarity atUNESCO (1992) and the founder and Director of the "Transdisciplinarity" Series, Rocher Editions, Monaco and of the "Romanians of Paris", Piktos/Oxus Editions, Paris.
He is also a specialist in the theory ofelementary particles. Basarab Nicolescu is the author of more than one hundred thirty articles in leading international scientific journals[citation needed], has made numerous contributions to science anthologies and participated in several dozensFrench radio and multimedia documentaries onscience.
Basarab Nicolescu is a major advocate of the transdisciplinary reconciliation between science and the humanities. He has published many articles on the role of science in contemporary culture in journals inFrance,Romania,Italy,United Kingdom,Brazil,Mexico,Argentina,Japan and in theUSA.
The Academy of Transdisciplinary Learning and Advanced Studies (ATLAS), Texas, USA decided to institute the "Basarab Nicolescu Transdisciplinary Science & Engineering Award". The first prizes were attributed in 2014.
Cristina Nunez, Irmgard Rehaag, Alejandro Sanchez y Enrique Vargas (Ed.), Transdisciplinariedad y sostenibilidad - Encuentro con Basarab Nicolescu, Universidad Veracruzana - Editores de la Nada, Xalapa, Mexico, 2011
Romanians in Western European science and culture, American-Romanian Academy of Arts and Sciences, Vol. 13, Davis, CA, USA, 1992
Anthology of Romanian associations and Romanian cultural personalities in exile 1940–1990, 2nd edition, Romanian Institute of Historical Research, San Diego, CA, USA, 1991
Universalia 1986, Section « Culture et œuvres – Les faits culturels », Encyclopedia Universalis, Paris, 1986
Doctor Honoris Causa of University of Veracruz, Mexico, "Alexandru Ioan Cuza" University, Iaşi, Romania, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania, "Vasile Goldiş" University, Arad, Romania and "George Bacovia" University, Bacau, Romania, Petroleum - Gas University, Ploieşti, Romania, University of Craiova, Craiova, Romania.
The Academy of Transdisciplinary Learning and Advanced Studies (ATLAS) Gold Medal of Honor, 2014
Great Officer, Faithful Service Order, Romania, 2002
Honorary citizenship of the cities of Cluj-Napoca, Iaşi and Ploieşti, Romania
Prize of the Union of Writers of Romania, 1993
The ATLAS Ramamoorthy§Yeh Transdisciplinary Distinguished Award, USA, 2010
"Inter-Balkan Cultural Association - Rigas' Charta" Award, Athens, Greece, 2007
Benjamin Franklin Award for Best History Book, USA, 1992, for the bookScience, Meaning and Evolution - The Cosmology of Jacob Boehme
Silver Medal of the French Academy, 1986, for the bookNous, la particule et le monde. The same book has been selected by "Universalia 1986", Encyclopedia Universalis Editions
Gold Medal at the First International Olympiad of Mathematics, Braşov, Romania, 1959
Opera Omnia Prize, Nichita Stănescu International Festival, Romania, 2006
From Modernity to Cosmodernity - Science, Culture, and Spirituality, State University of New York (SUNY) Press, New York, USA, 2014. Review:https://dx.doi.org/10.17646/KOME.2016.19
Transdisciplinarity - Theory and Practice (Ed.), Hampton Press, Cresskill, NJ, USA, 2008.
Manifesto of Transdisciplinarity, State University of New York (SUNY) Press, New York, 2002, translated from the French by Karen-Claire Voss.Review
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", inThe Design and Delivery of Inter- and Pluridisciplinary Research, Proceedings of the Muscipoli Workshop Two, The Danish Institute for Studies in Research and Research Policy, Denmark, 2002, pp. 108–111.
"In vitro and in vivo knowledge", inUnità 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", inDeterminismo e Complessità, Armando Editore, Roma, 2000, pp. 127–142, edited by F. Tito Arecchi.
"Hylemorphism, Quantum Physics and Levels of Reality", inAristotle 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", inSystems - 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", inThe 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", inContemporary Theater Review, Vol.7, Part 1, 1997, Harwood Academic Publishers, Amsterdam, translated from the French by David Williams (translated also into Japanese).
"In the Valley of Astonishment, an interview with Basarab Nicolescu" byJean Biès, inParabola, Vol.XXII, No.4, Winter 1997, New York.
"Levels of Complexity and Levels of Reality", inThe 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", inScience and the Boundaries of Knowledge, Proceedings of the Venice Symposium, UNESCO Editions, Paris, 1986 (translated into Spanish and many other languages)
ArticleLa necesidad de la transdisciplinariedad en la educación superior, inTrans-pasando Fronteras, No. 3, 2013, ISSN 2248-7212. Cali, Colombia:Universidad Icesi (URL visited on 9 January 2014).
Transdisciplinarity - Theory and Practice, Hampton Press, USA? 2008
Trans- and Interdisciplinary Education and Research, (2017) Dieleman Hans, Basarab Nicolescu and Atila Ertas (ed.),ISBN978-0-9998733-0-4, TheAtlas 2017
International Center for Transdisciplinary Research and Studies The site of Centre International de Recherches et Etudes Transdisciplinaires (CIRET). The only existent site dedicated, in its totality, to transdisciplinarity. E-zine "Transdisciplinary Encounters".
