Conferences
Basarab Nicolescu - Does the Universe Make Sense? The Contemporary Dialogue between Science and Religion
Romanian physicist established in France, honorary member of the Romanian Academy since 2001. Theoretical physicist at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), University of Paris VI. He is currently a professor at the Babeş-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca.
He was born on March 25th, 1942 in Ploieşti. He attended the courses of the Faculty of Physics at the University of Bucharest (1960-1964). In 1965, he defended his diploma thesis entitled Yang-Mills Fields and the Self-Interaction of Vector Fields. He was a teaching assistant (1965-1968) at the University of Bucharest. In 1968, he settled in France, being a fellow of the French government, at the University of Paris VI. Between 1969 and 1970, he was a fellow of the Commissariat for Atomic Energy. In 1970, he joined the CNRS as a physicist, after three years defending his state doctorate in physical sciences (Contribution à l'étude théorique de la diffusion pion-nucléon). In 1973, he introduced a new concept (Odderon), which opened a new field in the physics of strong interactions. In 1976, he obtained French citizenship. He was a "senior visiting scientist" at the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory (1976-1977) and the University of London (1979), as well as a visiting professor at the University of Girona (Spain) (2000-2001). His oeuvre materializes in over 130 specialized scientific works and in numerous works on transdisciplinarity, all quoted worldwide.
Honorary member abroad of the Romanian Academy (November 29, 2001). Honorary Doctor of the "Al. I. Cuza" University of Iaşi (2000). Honorary Citizen of the cities of Iaşi and Ploieşti. Director of the Transdisciplinarity collection (Editions du Rocher, Monaco) and of the Les Roumains de Paris collection (Editions Oxus, Paris). Member of the International Academic Council of the International Institute for Complex Thinking of the University of Buenos Aires. Honorary President of the "Ştefan Lupaşcu" International Foundation for science and culture in Iasi.
Awards
Silver Medal of the French Academy for the volume Nous, la particle et le monde (1986). Honorary Diploma of the Romanian-American Academy (1987). The Omnia Opera at the Nichita Stănescu International Festival (Ploieşti, 2006), the Romanian Writers' Union Award and the Benjamin Franklin Award for the Best History Book (USA) for Science, Meaning and Evolution - Essay on Jakob Böhme (1993). “Faithful Service" National Order to the rank of Grand Officer (2002).
Books
Les Racines de la liberté, Éditions Accarias-L'Originel, Paris, 2001, in collaboration with Michel Camus (Romanian translation. The Roots of Freedom, Curtea Veche, Bucharest, 2004); Ion Barbu - Cosmology of "the Second Game", Publishing House for Literature, Bucharest, 1968; second edition: Universul Enciclopedic, Bucharest, 2004); Nous, la particule et le monde, Éditions Le Mail, Paris, 1985 (work awarded by the French Academy , Romanian translation. Prize of the Romanian Writers' Union, 1993; Romanian translation. Science, meaning and evolution - Essay on Jakob Boehme, Vitruviu Publishing House, Bucharest, 2000); La transdisciplinarité (manifesto), Éditions du Rocher, Monaco, 1996 (transl. Transdisciplinarity (manifesto), Polirom Publishing, Iaşi, 1999); Théorèmes poétiques, Éditions du Rocher, Monaco, 1994 (transl. Poetic Theorems, Cartea Românească Publishing, Bucharest, 1996).
Translated by Simona Nichiteanu
