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Michel Jouvet
French neurobiologist (1925-2017).
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French neurobiologist (1925-2017).
Michel Valentin Marcel Jouvet (16 November 1925 – 3 October 2017) was a French neuroscientist and medical researcher. His works, and those of his team, have brought about the discovery of paradoxical sleep (a term he coined) and its individualisation as the third state of functioning of the brain (1959), to the discovery of its phylogenesis, of its ontogenesis and its main mechanisms. Jouvet was the researcher who first developed the eugeroic drug Modafinil.
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Achievements and distinctions
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French neurobiologist (1925-2017).
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Prix mondial Cino Del Duca
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CNRS Gold medal
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International Prize by Fyssen Foundation
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Blaise-Pascal Award
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Commander of the French Order of Academic Palms
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Commander of the National Order of Merit
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Officer of the Legion of Honour
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Croix du combattant volontaire 1939–1945
Career and education
Employers and institutions
Claude Bernard University Lyon 1 · University of Lyon · French National Institute of Health and Medical Research
Memberships
French Academy of Sciences · Academia Europaea
Leadership and official positions
president
Education
University of Lyon · Paris Medical Faculty
Academic qualifications
doctorate in France
Fields of work
physiology · sleep medicine
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