Alain Berthoz Explained

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,, 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.

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)

Notes and References

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