Background
Fonberg, Elzbieta Wiktoria was born on August 14, 1920 in Warsaw, Poland. Daughter of Ignacy and Zofia Adela (Luniewska) Fonberg.
researcher Neurophysiology scientist
Fonberg, Elzbieta Wiktoria was born on August 14, 1920 in Warsaw, Poland. Daughter of Ignacy and Zofia Adela (Luniewska) Fonberg.
Student medicine (underground), University Warsaw, 1945. Doctor of Medicine, University Warsaw, 1947. Doctor of Biology, Nencki Institute Experimental Biology, 1959.
Dr Habilit, Nencki Institute Experimental Biology, 1963.
Assistant department histology and embryology, U. Warsaw, 1947-1948; assistant department neurophysiology, Nencki Institute Experimental Biology, Warsaw, 1948-1950; from adjunct to full professor, Nencki Institute Experimental Biology, Warsaw, since 1950; head higher nervous activity laboratory, Nencki Institute Experimental Biology, Warsaw, 1966-1971; head-in-chief histology laboratory, Nencki Institute Experimental Biology, Warsaw, 1966-1975; head limbic laboratory, Nencki Institute Experimental Biology, Warsaw, 1971-1991. Principal investigator Polish-American Science Program, 1966-1981.
Served with Polish Underground Army against Nazis, 1941-1944. Member Phronesis-World Conference Neurosci. (president Polish section), Polish Physiology Society, International Brain Research Organization, International Society for Research on Aggression, International Commission of the Physiology of Food and Fluid Intake, Society des Auteurs ZAIKS, European Neurosci.
Association, European Brain and Behavior Society, Intermozg, Pavlovian Society of America, Polish Academy Science (chief and coordinator several science programs, science council), European College Neuropsychopharmacology, Polish Neurosci. Association (founding member), New York Academy of Sciences, Institute Neurology and Psychiatry (science council), Nencki Institute (science council).
1 child, Iwa.