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French Neurophysiologist

Alain Berthoz (born 18 February 1939 in Neuilly-sur-Seine) is a French engineer and neurophysiologist.

He graduated from the elite engineering École Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Nancy (N60), (or Nancy School of Mines), and has been a member of the French Academy of Sciences since 2003, and the Academy of Technology since 2010. He is an honorary professor at the Collège de France.

Biography

As a neurophysiologist, Berthoz is one of the leading specialists in integrative physiology. His research has focused on multisensory control of gaze, balance, locomotion and spatial memory.

Diplomas and career paths

  •    Civil Engineer of the Mines of Nancy (1963)
  •    Doctor of Natural Sciences (1973) (Paris)
  •    Director of the Neurosensory Physiology Laboratory of the CNRS.
  •    Professor at the Collège de France (1993-2009)

Bibliography (not exhaustive)

  •    Notice A. Berthoz on the BnF website
  •    Le Sens du mouvement, Éd. Odile Jacob, 1997
  •    The Decision, Ed. Odile Jacob, 2003
  •    L'Empathie, Éditions Odile Jacob, 2004, (ISBN 9782738114853), under the direction of Alain Berthoz and Gérard Jorland
  •    Phénoménologie et physiologie de l'action, Alain Berthoz, Jean-Luc Petit, Odile Jacob, 2006
  •    La simplexité, Éd. Odile Jacob, 2009
  •    La Vicariance, le cerveau créateur de monde, Éd. Odile Jacob, 2013
  •    Complexity-Simplexity, Alain Berthoz (dir.) and Jean-Luc Petit (dir.), Collège de France (Conférences), 2014, DOI:10.4000/books.cdf.3339 - "volume "companion" of La simplexité

Contributions

  •    Preface to Ombre à n dimensions by Stéphane Sangral, Éd. Galilée, 2014
  •    Regards sur le sport, collective, directed by Benjamin Pichery and François L'Yvonnet, Le Pommier/INSEP 2010, 256 p. (ISBN 978-2-7465-0484-4)

Honours and awards

Distinctions

  •    Elected member of the International Academy of Astronautics (1994)
  •    Elected member of the Academia Europaea (1994)
  •    Correspondent member of the French Academy of sciences (Paris, 1999) and member in 2003

Awards and medals

  •    Silver medal of the National Centre for Space Studies (1985)
  •    La Caze Prize of the French Academy of sciences (Paris, 1987)
  •    General Prize of the Academy of Medicine (Paris, 1991)
  •    Daw Award for Neuroscience (USA, 1996)
  •    International Prize for Neurology of the University of Pavia (1998)
  •    Grand Prix du CEA of the French Academy of sciences (Paris, 1998)

References

  1. "Alain Berthoz". Académie royale de Médecine de Belgique. Retrieved 9 October 2018.
  2. ^ "Académie des sciences".
  3. "Académie des technologies".
  4. "Collège de France".
  5. "France Inter".
  6. "Le sens du mouvement".
  7. "La décision".
  8. "L'empathie".
  9. "Phénoménologie et physiologie de l'action".
  10. "La simplexité".
  11. "Vicariance".
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