Tessaleno Devezas

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Tessaleno Devezas
Born
Tessaleno Campos Devezas

(1946-12-04) 4 December 1946 (age 78)
Nationality Portuguese
AwardsElsevier Best Paper Prize (2002)
Silver Kondratieff Medal (2004) [1]
Honorary Member of the International Kondratieff Foundation (2005)
Honor Mention from Elsevier (2006)[ citation needed ]
Scientific career
Fields Physics, Systems Theory, Materials Engineering, Energy Systems, Innovation and Technological Management and Technological Forecasting
Institutions University of Beira Interior and Atlantic University

Tessaleno Campos Devezas (born 4 December 1946 in Rio de Janeiro) is a Brazilian-born Portuguese physicist, systems theorist, and materials scientist. He is best known for his contributions to the long waves theory in socioeconomic development, technological evolution, energy systems as well as world system analysis. [2]

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Awards

In March 2002, Devezas was honored with the "Elsevier Best Paper Prize 2001"[ citation needed ] for his paper proposing a model explaining the mechanism underlying the long economic waves (Kondratieff waves) and, in 2006, another of his papers (about the growth dynamics of the Internet) received an Honor Mention from Elsevier.[ citation needed ] In 2004, he was awarded with the Silver Kondratieff Medal [3] by the International N. D. Kondratieff Foundation and the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences (RAEN) for his written contributions for the understanding of the Kondratieff waves, and, in 2005, he was honored as Honorary Member of the International Kondratieff Foundation.[ citation needed ]

Selected papers on socioeconomic development and systems theory

The following list does not include this author's publications on materials science and engineering.

Books

Book chapters

References

  1. The International N. D. Kondratieff Foundation Archived 2013-04-16 at archive.today (In Russian)(Accessed Nov 2010)
  2. Linstone, Harold: "Technological Forecasting & Social Change", 73(2), (2006), pp. 112
  3. The International N. D. Kondratieff Foundation
  4. Linstone, Harold A. (2007) Book Review of Kondratieff Waves, Warfare and World Security.Tessaleno C. Devezas, Editor, IOS Press, Amsterdam (2006), Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Volume 74, Issue 1, January 2007, Pages 113-116