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Jean-Pierre Changeux

Jean-Pierre Changeux
Jean-Pierre Changeux, French neuroscientist, biologist, and academic

Jean-Pierre Changeux is a French neuroscientist known for his research in several fields of biology, from the structure and function of proteins, to the early development of the nervous system up to cognitive functions. Although being famous in biological sciences for the MWC model, the identification and purification of the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor and the theory of epigenesis by synapse selection are also notable scientific achievements. Changeux is known by the non-scientific public for his ideas regarding the connection between mind and physical brain. As put forth in his book, Conversations on Mind, Matter and Mathematics, Changeux strongly supports the view that the nervous system functions in a projective rather than reactive style and that interaction with the environment, rather than being instructive, results in the selection amongst a diversity of preexisting internal representations.

6 April 1936

Born on the same birth date (6 April 1936): Helen Berman

Born on the same birth day (6 April): Alyson BailesAndré DacierAndré OuelletArchon FungBlaine NealBret BooneCelestina CorderoCharles HuotDouglas HillGil KaneGustave MoreauHans Richter (artist)Hirotada OtotakeIan PaisleyJ. G. Parry-ThomasJohann KuhnauLee Scott (politician)Randy WestonRoy ThinnesRyota MoriwakiSpencer ListSun Wen (footballer)Tom Veivers

Born in the same month (April 1936): Adolfo NicolásDavid A. HardyDavid CrombieDragoljub MinićGlenn JordanJacob Rothschild, 4th Baron RothschildJean-Pascal DelamurazJerzy MaksymiukJohn Howell (athlete)Lisa Davis (actress)Pat RobertsPierre HétuPierre RosenbergRaymond PoulidorReg FlemingRoy OrbisonVladimir Hütt