Denise Albe-Fessard was named a Chevalier of the Legion of Honour and an Officer of the Order of Merit.
10 Facts About Denise Albe-Fessard
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Denise Albe-Fessard was born in Boulogne-Billancourt, France during the First World War to parents from farmer and artisan backgrounds.
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Denise Albe-Fessard's father was a railway engineer who aided in the construction of tracks that carried soldiers and ammunition to the front lines.
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Denise Albe-Fessard was the youngest child out of four and had the opportunity to receive the same education as her two brothers because this was more acceptable in Paris than it was in the provinces from which her family originated.
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Denise Albe-Fessard proceeded to earn an engineering degree in 1937 at School of Physique et Chimie de Paris, specializing in physics under the advice of her brother not to pursue medicine due to the struggles that women in that field faced.
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Denise Albe-Fessard graduated with a doctoral degree from University of Paris in 1950.
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Denise Albe-Fessard went on to become the director of the physiological laboratory of nervous centers of the Sciences faculty.
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Early on, Denise Albe-Fessard studied the electrical activity of electric fish.
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Denise Albe-Fessard chaired the scientific committee of the first international congress on pain in 1975 in Florence, Italy.
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Denise Albe-Fessard was the first president of the International Association for the Study of Pain between 1975 and 1978.