Alain Berthoz
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[edit]
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[edit]
- 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)[edit]
- 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[edit]
- 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[edit]
Distinctions[edit]
- 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[edit]
- 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[edit]
- ^ "Alain Berthoz". Académie royale de Médecine de Belgique. Retrieved 9 October 2018.
- ^ a b "Académie des sciences".
- ^ "Académie des technologies".
- ^ "Collège de France".
- ^ "France Inter".
- ^ "Le sens du mouvement".
- ^ "La décision".
- ^ "L'empathie".
- ^ "Phénoménologie et physiologie de l'action".
- ^ "La simplexité".
- ^ "Vicariance".
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