# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/basarab-nicolescu
# Generated: 2026-08-13T20:40:49.133Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/basarab-nicolescu"
name: "Basarab Nicolescu"
slug: "basarab-nicolescu"
description: "Basarab Nicolescu is an honorary 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. He is also a professor at the Babeş-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."
tagline: "Romanian physicist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Basarab_Nicolescu_Sherbrooke.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
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birthDate: "1942-03-25"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  momentum:             0
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  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump