2000 Nonruminant Nutrition Research Award

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Jean Noblet

Jean Noblet was born in August 1952 on a farm in Brittany, France. He received degrees in Animal Science and Animal Nutrition at the Institut National Agronomique of Paris. In 1978, he joined the Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA), first at Jouy-en-Josas, near Paris, and in 1980 at St-Gilles, near Rennes. He received his Ph.D. in Animal Nutrition in 1990 from the University of Paris. In 1994, he was awarded the Prix de l’Académie d’Agriculture prize in France.

At INRA, he has been responsible for research on energy nutrition of pigs and has focused on four main areas: determination of energy requirements, response of pigs to energy supply, regulation of energy intake, and estimation of energy value of feeds for pigs. His results have contributed to improvements of bases for factorial prediction of energy requirements of growing pigs and reproductive sows under quite variable conditions and have been used in the establishment of NRC recommendations for swine. He has also quantified the role of climatic conditions on energy requirements and energy intake. One of his major research achievements was the proposal of an energy system for evaluating pig feeds based on the net energy concept. In the past decade, he has authored or co-authored 48 refereed papers, 6 book chapters, and 113 papers presented at scientific or technical meetings or in technical journals. Apart from communications in France, Jean Noblet has given 45 oral communications in other European countries, North America, Brazil, Australia, and southeastern Asia. He is a member of the American Society of Animal Science and is currently serving on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Animal Science. He and his wife, Françoise, have three children.