Born December 21 1920, Toulouse. Died May 15 2012.
Education and professional career
- 1945-1947 : Scholar (Cultural Relations, then Rockefeller Foundation) in the United States
- 1947 : Doctor of Medicine, Toulouse
- 1947-1949 : Research Fellow, INH (Institut National d'Hygiène), Toulouse
- 1949-1951 : Assistant, Rockefeller Institute, New York
- 1951-1953 : Research Fellow, INH, Toulouse
- 1952 : Agrégé de physiologie des Facultés de médecine
- 1953-1971 : Senior Lecturer, then Professor of Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, Toulouse
- 1972-1991 : Professor of Neurophysiology, Collège de France
- 1980-1991 : Administrator of the Collège de France
Awards and honors
- 1945 : Resistance Medal and Croix de Guerre
- 1980 : Member of the Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina
- 1980 : Grand prix scientifique de la Ville de Paris
- 1982 : Grand prix du C.E.A., Académie des Sciences
- 1984 : Honorary Member of the Physiological Society
- 1985 : Membre de l'Académie des Sciences (section de biologie humaine et sciences médicales)
- 1987 : Honorary doctorate from the University of Gothenburg
- 1994 : Member of the Academia Europae
- 1999 : Commander of the Légion d'honneur
- 2006 : Grand Cross of the National Order of Merit