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Curriculum Vitae
(19/03/1909 - 10/08/1988)
Born at
Etterbeek, on March 19, 1909
University diplomas :
Doctor of medicine, Université Libre de Bruxelles, 1934
Functions :
Full Professor at the Faculty of Science of the Université Libre de
Bruxelles: biologe animale, végétale et animale et morpholigie animale
Director of the Laboratoire d'Embryologie moléculaire au Laboratoire
international de Génétique et de Biophysique in Naples
Curriculum vitae :
Assistant at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, 1934-1938
Research Fellow of the Rockefeller Foundation, 1937
Part-time lecturer at the Faculty of pedagogy ot the Université
Libre de Bruxelles, 1937-1938
Part-time lecturer at the Faculty of Science of the Université Libre de
Bruxelles, 1938-1942
Full Professor, 1942
Director of the Laboratory of animal morphology of the Université Libre
de Bruxelles, 1942
Member of the Commission of the Publications and Subsidies of the
Fondation Universitaire, 1945-1946
Member of the Board of the Fondaton Universitaire, 1955-1956
Member of the section natural and biological Sciences of Jurys of the
Prizes Louis Empain, 1955-1959
Member of the Board of the Fondation La Jeunesse Intellectuelle,
1957-1963
Member of the Committee of scientific experts of the Conseil National de
la Politique Scientifique, 1959-1961
Member of the Virology Work group of the Fonds de la Recherche
Scientifique Médicale, 1959-1965
President of the Group of study cellular and molecular Biology of the
Conseil National de la Politique Scientifique, 1960-1961
Member of the Board of the Fonds National de la Recherche Scientifque,
1960-1965
President of the Group of Contact of the Traceurs en Biologie et en
Biochimie de l'Institut Interuniversitaire des Sciences Nucléaires,
1960-1965
Member of the Commission of Biochemistry (normal and pathological),
Molecular biology of the Fonds National de la Recherche Scientifique,
1961-1966
Member of the Conseil (délégué de l'Union internationale des
Physiologistes) de l'International Cell Research Organization (I.C.R.O.),
créée à l'initiative de l'UNESCO, 1963; President, 1967
Member of the Conseil du Fonds de l'Organisation Européenne de Biologie
moléculaire (E.M.B.0.), 1964
Member of the Board of management of the Fonds de la Recherche
Fondamentale Collective, April-July, 1965
Scientific distinctions :
Laureate of the Concours universitaire, 1933
Laureate of the Concours des bourses de voyage du Gouvernement,
1934
Prize P.J and Ed. Van Beneden, 1936
Prize A. De Potter, 1940
Prize Léo Errera, 1943
Francqui Prize, 1948
Prize Aug. Slosse, 1950
Prize Albert Brachet, 1953
Prize Charles Mayer, 1957
H.P. Heineken Prize (Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences), 1967
Member of the royal Danish Academy, 1956
Honorary Fellow off the Weizmann Institute off Science, Rehovoth, Israel,
1959
Titular member of the Académie royale des Sciences, des Lettres et des
Beaux-Arts de Belgique, 1960
Corresponding
Member of the royal Academy of Medicine of Belgium, 1962
Member of Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina, Halle, 1962
Foreign member of the Istituto Lombardo, Accademia di Scienze e Lettere,
Milan, 1964
Robert Hooke Lecturer at the University of Texas, 1964
Foreign member of the National Academy of Sciences, Washington, 1965
Member of the Serb Academy of Sciences, 1965
Member of the Royal Society, London, 1966
Doctor honoris causa of the University of Poitiers, 1954
Doctor honoris causa of the University of Turin, 1960
Doctor honoris causa of the University of Palerme, 1962
Doctor honoris causa of the University of Edinburgh, 1962
Doctor honoris causa of the University of Strasbourg, 1964
Doctor honoris causa of the Faculté des Sciences agronomiques de
l'Etat à Gembloux, 1966
Doctor honoris causa of the University of Lille, 1968
Titular of the Francqui Chair at the Université de l'Etat à Liège,
1948-1949
Titular of the Francqui Chair at the Université de l'Etat à Gand,
1957-1958
Titular of the Francqui Chair at the Université Catholique de Louvain,
1959-1960.
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Report of the Jury (April 19, 1948)
Considérant que la Professeur Jean
BRACHET a contribué brillament au développement et à l'essor d'une
branche nouvelle et importante de la biologie, l'embryologie
expérimentale et chimique,
Considérant qu'il a été parmi le
petit groupe international de chercheurs qui ont posé les problèmes de
la morphogenèse sur le plan moléculaire en dépit des idées courantes et
qu'il a toujours concentré son attention sur des questions de science
fondamentale,
décide de conférer le Prix Francqui
1948 à Monsieur le Professeur Jean BRACHET.
Jury members
:
Professor J.
Needham
Professor at the Cambridge University
Chairman
Professor A. de
Muralt
Professor at the University of Berne
Professor M.
Florkin
Professor at the Université de l'Etat à Liège
Professor J.
Vandenbroucke
Professor at the Université Catholique de Louvain
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