Radu Bălescu
Radu Bălescu (born July 18, 1932 in Bucharest ; † June 1, 2006 ibid) was a Belgian physicist of Romanian descent who dealt with statistical physics and plasma physics.
Bălescu went to school in Bucharest and from 1948 in Ixelles and studied from 1950 at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), where he received his doctorate in 1958 with Ilya Prigogine . He was assistant to Prigogine and from 1964 professor at the ULB. He died while visiting Bucharest.
Bălescu dealt with the statistical physics of charged particles and plasmas with applications to transport theory in magnetically confined plasmas such as the tokamak reactor. He was also active in nuclear fusion research for several decades .
In 1970 he received the Francqui Prize . In 2000 he received the first Hannes Alfvén Prize from the Plasma Physics Department of the European Physical Society . He was a member of the Royal Academy of Sciences and Fine Arts of Belgium and an honorary member of the Romanian Academy .
Fonts
- Statistical Mechanics of Charged Particles, New York, Interscience 1963 (also translated into Russian)
- Equilibrium and Non Equilibrium Statistical Mechanics, Wiley 1975 (also translated into Russian)
- Transport Processes in Plasmas, 2 volumes, North Holland 1988 (also translated into Chinese)
- Statistical Dynamics: Matter out of Equilibrium, Imperial College Press 1997
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bălescu, Radu |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Belgian physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 18, 1932 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bucharest |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 1, 2006 |
| Place of death | Bucharest |