- Radu Bălescu
Radu Bălescu (
Bucharest ,Romania ,18 July ,1932 –1 June ,2006 ) was a Romanian and Belgian (Belgian since 1959) scientist and professor at the "Statistical and Plasma Physics" group of theUniversité Libre de Bruxelles (ULB).He studied at the Titu Maiorescu high school, in Bucharest (1943 – 1948) and the Athénée Royal d'
Ixelles (1948 – 1950). At the ULB (1950 – 1958) he studied chemistry and obtained a PhD in 1958. He started his academic career in 1957 at the ULB as an assistant (with Prof.Ilya Prigogine ) at the "Service de Physique Théorique et Mathématique". He became a professor at the ULB in 1964. He worked on the statistical physics of charged particles (Bălescu-Lenard collision operator [Mynick H. E., The generalized Balescu-Lenard collision operator, Journal of plasma physics, 1988, vol. 39, no.2, pp. 303 – 317] ) and on the theory of transport of magnetically confined plasmas. In 1970 he was awarded theFrancqui Prize on Exact Sciences.ee also
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External links
* [http://membres.lycos.fr/fusionbfr/RB/RB.html Radu Bălescu]
* [http://www.jet.efda.org/pages/content/news/2006/060602balescu.html Professor Emeritus Radu Bălescu - Obituary]
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