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Jorge Wagensberg's Biography
Jorge Wagensberg (1948) is lecturer in Theory of Irreversible Processes in the Faculty of Physics, Barcelona University. He created and directs the series Metatemas published by Tusquets Editores, a collection which is a reference point for scientific thought and which celebrated its twenty-first birthday in 2004.
Since 1991, he has been director of the Fundació “la Caixa” Museu de la Ciència, a pioneering institution of its kind in the world. He has published over a hundred research works in fields as wide-ranging as thermodynamics, mathematics, biophysics, microbiology, palaeontology, entomology, scientific museology and philosophy of science.
Among other books he has written Nosotros y la ciencia (1980), Ideas sobre la complejidad del mundo (1985) - translated into French: L’âme de la méduse (1987) -, Amazonia, ilusiones ilustradas (1996), Introducció a la teoria de la probabilitat i la informació (1996) - with J. Masoliver -, Ideas para la imaginación impura (1998), Si la naturaleza es la respuesta _cuál era la pregunta? (2002) and La rebelión de las formas (2004).