Louis Lapicque

{{Short description|French neuroscientist (1866–1952)}}

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Louis Édouard Lapicque (1 August 1866 – 6 December 1952) was a French neuroscientist, socialist activist, antiboulangist, dreyfusard and freemasonin Frédéric Joliot-Curie page 578 by Michel Pinault (Editions Odile Jacob, 2000) who was very influential in the early 20th century. One of his main contributions was to propose the integrate-and-fire model of the neuron in a seminal article published in 1907.{{cite journal |author=Lapicque L |title= Recherches quantitatives sur l'excitation électrique des nerfs traitée comme une polarisation |journal=J. Physiol. Pathol. Gen. |volume=9 |pages=620–635 |year=1907}} Today, this model of the neuron is still one of the most popular models in computational neuroscience for both cellular and neural networks studies, as well as in mathematical neuroscience because of its simplicity. A review article {{cite journal |author=Brunel N, Van Rossum MC |title= Lapicque's 1907 paper: from frogs to integrate-and-fire |journal=Biol. Cybern. |volume=97 |pages=337–339 |year=2007 |pmid=17968583 |doi=10.1007/s00422-007-0190-0 |issue=5–6|s2cid= 17816096 }} was published for the centenary of the original Lapicque's 1907 paper - this review also contains an English translation of the original paper.

His wife, Marcelle Lapicque, was also a neurophysiologist.{{Cite book|title = The Biographical Dictionary of Women in Science: L-Z|url = https://books.google.com/books?id=LTSYePZvSXYC&pg=PA745|publisher = Taylor & Francis|year=2000|isbn = 9780415920407|first1 = Marilyn Bailey|last1 = Ogilvie|first2 = Joy Dorothy|last2 = Harvey|author-link=Marilyn Bailey Ogilvie|author2-link=Joy Harvey|pages=745–746|contribution=Lapicque, Marcelle (de Heredia) (1873–ca.1962)}} Louis Lapicque "insisted on the importance of his wife as equal co-worker in all his research".{{cite book|title=For Better or For Worse? Collaborative Couples in the Sciences|volume=44|series=Science Networks Historical Studies|publisher=Birkhäuser|editor1-first=Annette|editor1-last=Lykknes|editor2-first=Donald L.|editor2-last=Opitz|editor3-first=Brigitte|editor3-last=Van Tiggelen|year=2012|isbn=9783034802864|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yR0fPFFbKqsC&pg=PA66|pages=66–67|contribution=Louis and Marcelle Lapicque}}.

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