Jean-Pierre Changeux

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): Fabrice Muamba • Georg Hólm • Guillaume Bigourdan • Heidi Mount • Julian Anderson • Levi Porter • Marco Schällibaum • Pier Giorgio Frassati • Roy Goode • Ryota Moriwaki • Shaheen Afridi • Tadeusz Kantor • Zach Braff

Born in the same month (April 1936): Arlene Martel • Bobby Nichols • Dragoljub Minić • Henck Arron • Jerzy Maksymiuk • John A. Bennett • John Howell (athlete) • John Madden • Pierre Hétu • Pierre Rosenberg • Reg Fleming • Roger Graef • Ronnie Bucknum