Biography:Alain Berthoz

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Short description: French Neurophysiologist

Alain Berthoz (born 18 February 1939 in Neuilly-sur-Seine)[1] 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,[2] and the Academy of Technology since 2010.[3] He is an honorary professor at the Collège de France.[4]

Biography

As a neurophysiologist, Berthoz is one of the leading specialists in integrative physiology.[5] 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[archive] on the BnF website
  •    Le Sens du mouvement, Éd. Odile Jacob, 1997[6]
  •    The Decision, Ed. Odile Jacob, 2003[7]
  •    L'Empathie, Éditions Odile Jacob, 2004, (ISBN:9782738114853), under the direction of Alain Berthoz and Gérard Jorland[8]
  •    Phénoménologie et physiologie de l'action, Alain Berthoz, Jean-Luc Petit, Odile Jacob, 2006[9]
  •    La simplexité, Éd. Odile Jacob, 2009[10]
  •    La Vicariance, le cerveau créateur de monde, Éd. Odile Jacob, 2013[11]
  •    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[2]

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". http://www.armb.be/index.php?id=1195. 
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Académie des sciences". https://www.academie-sciences.fr/fr/Liste-des-membres-de-l-Academie-des-sciences-/-B/alain-berthoz.html. 
  3. ↑ "Académie des technologies". https://www.academie-technologies.fr/blog/categories/videos/posts/voyage-au-centre-de-l-apprentissage-alain-berthoz-physiologiste. 
  4. ↑ "Collège de France". https://www.college-de-france.fr/site/alain-berthoz/biographie.htm. 
  5. ↑ "France Inter". https://www.franceinter.fr/emissions/les-savanturiers/les-savanturiers-01-fevrier-2014. 
  6. ↑ "Le sens du mouvement". https://www.odilejacob.fr/catalogue/sciences/neurosciences/sens-du-mouvement_9782738104571.php. 
  7. ↑ "La décision". https://www.odilejacob.fr/catalogue/sciences/neurosciences/decision_9782738111029.php. 
  8. ↑ "L'empathie". https://www.odilejacob.fr/catalogue/sciences/neurosciences/empathie_9782738114853.php. 
  9. ↑ "Phénoménologie et physiologie de l'action". https://livre.fnac.com/a1849106/Alain-Berthoz-Phenomenologie-et-physiologie-de-l-action. 
  10. ↑ "La simplexité". https://www.odilejacob.fr/catalogue/sciences/biologie/simplexite_9782738121691.php. 
  11. ↑ "Vicariance". https://www.odilejacob.fr/catalogue/sciences/neurosciences/vicariance_9782738130211.php. 



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