Jean-Pierre Changeux

Jean -Pierre Changeux ( born April 6, 1936 in Domont, France) is a professor of Molecular Neurobiology at the Collège de France and the Institut Pasteur ( since 1967). The main research topics of the former student of Jacques Monod, the molecular and cellular mechanisms of signal detection and transduction from the receptors to the brain. Changeux and staff are authors of a theory of the epigenesis of neuronal networks and higher brain functions.

Awards and Memberships (Selection)

Writings

  • J.-P. Changeux: Neuronal man. How does the soul - the discoveries of new brain research. 1984, ISBN 3-498-00865- X
  • J.-P. Changeux, Alain Connes: Thoughts matter. Springer, 1992, ISBN 3-540-54559- X
Epigenesis (biology) NAS Award in the Neurosciences Wolf Prize Roger Wolcott Sperry Arvid Carlsson Leo Sachs Barbara McClintock Solomon H. Snyder James Black (pharmacologist) Donald F. Steiner Pedro Cuatrecasas Meir Wilchek Elizabeth F. Neufeld Edward B. Lewis Maclyn McCarty Seymour Benzer Michael Berridge Michael Sela Ruth Arnon Avram Hershko Mario Capecchi Oliver Smithies Roger Y. Tsien Alexander Levitzki Aharon Razin Axel Ullrich Rudolf Jaenisch Ronald M. Evans Integrated Authority File
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