Alain Berthoz
{{Short description|French Neurophysiologist}}
Alain Berthoz (born 18 February 1939 in Neuilly-sur-Seine){{cite web|title=Alain Berthoz|url=http://www.armb.be/index.php?id=1195|website=Académie royale de Médecine de Belgique|access-date=9 October 2018|publication-date=}} 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,{{cite web|title=Académie des sciences|url=https://www.academie-sciences.fr/fr/Liste-des-membres-de-l-Academie-des-sciences-/-B/alain-berthoz.html|publication-date=}} and the Academy of Technology since 2010.{{cite web|title=Académie des technologies|url=https://www.academie-technologies.fr/blog/categories/videos/posts/voyage-au-centre-de-l-apprentissage-alain-berthoz-physiologiste|publication-date=}} He is an honorary professor at the Collège de France.{{cite web|title=Collège de France|url=https://www.college-de-france.fr/site/alain-berthoz/biographie.htm|publication-date=}}
Biography
As a neurophysiologist, Berthoz is one of the leading specialists in integrative physiology.{{cite web|title=France Inter|url=https://www.franceinter.fr/emissions/les-savanturiers/les-savanturiers-01-fevrier-2014|publication-date=}} 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{{cite web|title=Le sens du mouvement|url=https://www.odilejacob.fr/catalogue/sciences/neurosciences/sens-du-mouvement_9782738104571.php|publication-date=}}
- The Decision, Ed. Odile Jacob, 2003{{cite web|title=La décision|url=https://www.odilejacob.fr/catalogue/sciences/neurosciences/decision_9782738111029.php|publication-date=}}
- L'Empathie, Éditions Odile Jacob, 2004, ({{ISBN|9782738114853}}), under the direction of Alain Berthoz and Gérard Jorland{{cite web|title=L'empathie|url=https://www.odilejacob.fr/catalogue/sciences/neurosciences/empathie_9782738114853.php|publication-date=}}
- Phénoménologie et physiologie de l'action, Alain Berthoz, Jean-Luc Petit, Odile Jacob, 2006{{cite web|title=Phénoménologie et physiologie de l'action|url=https://livre.fnac.com/a1849106/Alain-Berthoz-Phenomenologie-et-physiologie-de-l-action|publication-date=}}
- La simplexité, Éd. Odile Jacob, 2009{{cite web|title=La simplexité|url=https://www.odilejacob.fr/catalogue/sciences/biologie/simplexite_9782738121691.php|publication-date=}}
- La Vicariance, le cerveau créateur de monde, Éd. Odile Jacob, 2013{{cite web|title=Vicariance|url=https://www.odilejacob.fr/catalogue/sciences/neurosciences/vicariance_9782738130211.php|publication-date=}}
- 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)
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Category:Scientists from Neuilly-sur-Seine
Category:French neuroscientists