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Curriculum Vitae
(1926-2009)
Born at Wavre, on February 19, 1926
University diplomas :
Doctor of medicine, Université Libre de Bruxelles, 1950.
Graduate higher education, Université Libre de Bruxelles, 1956.
Functions :
Professor at the faculty of medicine of the Université Libre de
Bruxelles : human neurophysiology, physiopathology of the nervous
system.
Director of the Research unit on the Brain.
Curriculum vitae :
Free researcher at the laboratory of general pathology of the Université
Libre de Bruxelles, 1945-1950.
Prize winner of the university Contests, 1947-1949.
Prize winner of the Contest of the Bourses de voyage du Gouvernement,
1951.
Assistant at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, 1950-1956.
British Council Scholar at the University of Cambridge, 1951-1952.
Graduate Fellow of the Belgian American Educational Foundation,
1952-1953.
Chief of work, 1956-1961.
Associated at the Fonds National de la Recherche Scientifique,
1957-1961.
Agrégation, 1959-1961.
Lecturer, 1961-1967.
Director of the Research unit on the Brain, 1962.
Full Professor, 1967.
Professor of exchange at the University of Oxford, 1963.
Professor of exchange at the University of Bologna, 1968.
Member of the Association des Physiologistes de langue française, 1954.
Titular member of the Société d'Electroencéphalographie et de
Neurophysiologie clinique de langue française, 1954.
Member of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1957.
Titular member of the Société française de Psychologie, 1958.
Member of the Acoustical Society of America, 1959.
Member of the Belgian society of Neurology, 1959.
Member of honor of the French company of Neurology, 1961.
Founding member and General secretary of the Belgian society of
Electromyography, 1962.
Member of honor of the Societa Italiana di Biologia sperimentale, 1963.
Member of the American Biophysical Society, 1963.
Member of the Collegium Oto-Rhino-Laryngologicum Amicitiae Sacrum, 1963.
Member of honor of the American Association for Electromyography and
Electrodiagnosis, 1965.
Member of the Société d'Ergonomie de langue française, 1965.
Member of the International Primatological Society, 1966.
Member of the International Society for Electromyographic Kinesiology,
1967.
Member of the Belgian League against the Myopathy, 1965; Chairman,
1967-1974.
Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicinie, Great Britain, 1967.
Associated member, 1957; titular member of Physiological Society, Great
Britain, 1968.
President of the Groupe de contact Neurophysiologie clinique of the
Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique Médicale, 1968.
Member of the Belgian society of Biology, 1956; Vice-chairman, 1969.
Member of the Commission of Neurophysiology of the International Union
of Physiological Sciences, 1970.
Chairman of the Committee of the subsidies and purses of the Brain
Research Organization, 1968; Member of the Executive committee, 1969;
Chairman of the Congrès annuel in 1970.
Member of International Society for Developmental Psychobiology, 1970.
Member of the Executive committee of the Commission of the
Neuromusculaires Diseases of the World Federation of Neurology, 1971.
Member of the Committee at Pavia for the Electromyography of the
International Federation of Societies for Electroencephalography and
Clinical Neurophysiology, 1962-1969; Member of the Commission of
Electromyography, 1969-1973; Chairman of the Committee of the
apparatures and methods of electromyography, 1962-1967; Chairman of the
4th international Congress of Electromyography in 1971.
Chariman of the Jury of the Scientific Prize Louis Empain section
Sciences naturelles et médicales, 1972.
Member of the European Brain and Behaviour Society, 1969.
Scientific distinctions :
Prize Th. Gluge, 1953.
Prize Alvarenga de Piauhy, 1959.
Decennial prize of Give de Muache, 1960-1970.
Jansen prize, 1961.
Pfizer prize, 1965.
Member corresponding of the Académie Royale de Médecine, 1969.
Titular of the Chaire Francqui at the Université de l'Etat à Liège,
1968-1969.
Titular of the Chaire belge at the University of London, 1969-1970.
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Report of the Jury (April 8, 1972)
Considérant que le Professeur
Jean-Edouard Desmedt a apporté des contributions nombreuses et
importantes à la physiologie et à la physiopathologie du système nerveux
et du muscle, notamment dans le domaine du contrôle centrifuge des
systèmes sensoriels, de la maturation du cortex cérébral et de la
transmission neuro-musculaire,
considérant l'intérêt des
applications cliniques de ses recherches et le renom international de
son oeuvre,
décide de conférer le Prix Francqui
1972 à Monsieur Jean-Edouard Desmedt, Professeur à la Faculté de
médecine de l'Université Libre de Bruxelles.
Jury members
:
Professor Eric
Martin
Professeur honoraire de l'Université de Genève.
Chairman
and
Professor Denise
Albe-Fessard
Professor at the University of Paris
France
Professor Gustav
V.R. Born,
Vandervell Professor at the University of London and
Royal College of Surgeons
London - UK
Professor François
Gros
Professor at the Faculty of Sciences at Paris
France
Professor Richard
Jung
Professor at the Albert-Ludwigs-Univesität
Fribourg-en-Brisgau
Professor Yves
Laporte
Professor at the Faculty of Medecine at Toulouse
France
Professor Helge
Larsen
Professor at the University of Trondheim
Professpr Denis
Noble
Fellow and Tutor au Balliol College
Oxford
Professor Martin
Ottesen
Directeur de recherche au Laboratoire Carlsberg
Copenhague-Valby
Professor Edward
Charles Slater
Professor at the University of d'Amsterdam
The Netherlands
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