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Nicholas Georgescu‐Roegen's long and productive career was marked by gradual but significant changes in his outlook, focus of research interest, and interpretation of the economic process. His publications reflect the unusual breadth of his education and work experience, and an innate intellectual curiosity which caused him to disregard the traditional boundaries between disciplines. He was an auto‐didact in a wide range of areas, and his erudition showed at every turn. He moved easily from economics to philosophy, including the philosophy of science, and from the physical to the biological sciences. This makes it difficult for economists to evaluate his contributions adequately. Our task is somewhat lightened by the autobiographical notes which he wrote reflecting on the highlights of his professional development (Georgescu‐Roegen, 1988, 1992a, b, 1993). Georgescu was born in Constantsa, Romania in 1906 to a family in modest circumstances. He acquired a love for mathematics in primary and secondary school, and went on to study it at the University of Bucharest, where he graduated with a licence ès mathématiques in 1926. He then won a scholarship to the Sorbonne where he turned from mathematics to statistics. In Paris he took courses from the famous statistician Emile Borel and the economists Albert Aftalion and Jacques Rueff, thus receiving his first introduction to economics. He was granted the doctoral degree avec les félicitations du jury in 1930 after writing a dissertation on the discovery of latent cyclical components in time series. Another scholarship allowed him to continue his studies in London under Karl Pearson from 1930 to 1932, when he returned to Romania to become Professor of Statistics at the University of Bucharest, a position he held until 1946.
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