# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/radu-balescu
# Generated: 2026-08-13T20:20:16.284Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/radu-balescu"
name: "Radu Bălescu"
slug: "radu-balescu"
description: "Radu Bălescu was a Romanian and Belgian scientist and professor at the Statistical and Plasma Physics group of the Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB)."
tagline: "Romanian-Belgian plasma physicist and university teacher (1932–2006)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Radu_Balescu.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1932-07-18"
deathDate: "2006-06-01"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.42
  momentum:             0.335195530726257
  historical:           7.20666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%B5%D1%81%D0%BA%D1%83%2C_%D0%A0%D0%B0%D0%B4%D1%83"
    title: "Балеску, Раду"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%AC%D9%84%D8%B3_%D8%A8%D9%88%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%B3%D9%83%D9%88"
    title: "مجلس بوليسكو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radu_B%C4%83lescu"
    title: "Radu Bălescu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radu_B%C4%83lescu"
    title: "Radu Bălescu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radu_B%C4%83lescu"
    title: "Radu Bălescu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radu_B%C4%83lescu"
    title: "Radu Bălescu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radu_B%C4%83lescu"
    title: "Radu Bălescu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radu_B%C4%83lescu"
    title: "Radu Bălescu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q523702"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump