Jorge Wagensberg (Barcelona, 1948), Doctor of Physics, is professor of
Irreversible Process Theory at the University of Barcelona. He not only
investigates and disseminates science, but is also a dynamic promoter of the
debate of ideas, which has achieved him Catalonia’s National Prize for
Scientific Thought and Culture, among other awards. He is the director of our
Metatemas collection and is now responsible for the Scientific and
Environmental Area of the “la Caixa” Foundation, after having directed the
scientific museum CosmoCaixa, a reference for science museums around the world.
He is the author of a dozen books and of many works of investigation on
thermodynamics, mathematics, biophysics, microbiology, paleontology,
entomology, scientific museology, and the philosophy of science, as well as of
journalistic articles on a number of different topics. We have
published six wokrs, among them Si la
naturaleza es la respuesta, ¿cuál era la pregunta?, La rebelión de las formas, A
más cómo menos por qué and El gozo
intelectual.