Born on February 22, 1923 in Geneva, Switzerland. Died on May 9, 2007.
Education and professional career
- 1948-1958: Medical Biologist, then Engineer at CEA
- 1958-1967: Lecturer, then Professor at the Paris Faculty of Science
- 1967-1993: Professor at the Collège de France, Chair of Cellular Physiology
- 1968-1973: President of the DGRST concerted action "Biological membranes"
- 1980-1982: Member, then Chairman of Comité consultatif pour la Recherche (CCRST)
- 1986-1989: Member of the Comité National d'Évaluation des Universités (CNE)
- 1988-2007: Member of the Académie des Sciences
- 1993-2007: Honorary Professor at the Collège de France
- 1996-2007: Honorary foreign member of the Académie Royale de Médecine de Belgique
Awards and distinctions
- Honorary doctorate from the following universities: Geneva (1974), Lausanne (1987), Montreal (1989), Carol Davila, Bucharest (1992)
- Lounsbery Award from the U.S. Academy of Sciences
- 1962: Franco-British "Louis Rapkine" Medal
- 1979: Homer Smith Prize, New York Heart Association
- 1989: Volhardt Medal of the Gesellshaft für Nephrologie
- 1994: Pavlov Medal of the Russian Academy of Sciences
- 1994: Promoted to Officer in the National Order of the Legion of Honor
- 1995: Richards Prize of the International Society of Nephrology
- 1997: Promoted to Officer in the National Order of Merit
Works
Animal physiology: capillary permeability, sodium and potassium metabolism and excretion, Iodine turnover in the thyroid gland.
Renal physiology: sites and mechanism of action of various hormones on their cellular targets in the nephron.