Tessaleno Devezas

Tessaleno Devezas
Born (1946-12-04)December 4, 1946
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Residence Covilhã, Portugal
Nationality Portuguese
Fields Physics and Systems Theory and Materials Science
Institutions University of Beira Interior and IADE-Lisbon
Notable awards Elsevier Best Paper Prize (2002)
Silver Kondratieff Medal (2004)[1]
Honorary Member of the International Kondratieff Foundation (2005)
Honor Mention from Elsevier (2006)

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

Awards

In March 2002 Devezas was honored with the “Elsevier Best Paper Prize 2001” 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. 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.

Selected papers on Socioeconomic Development and Systems Theory

Books

Book Chapters

References

  1. The International N. D. Kondratieff Foundation (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
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