Claude Bouchiat, born 16 May 1932, is a French

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, member of the French Academy of sciences.

Biography

Graduate of the

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in 1955, he was director of research at the CNRS in the theoretical physics laboratory of the

École Normale Supérieure École may refer to: * an elementary school in the French educational stages normally followed by secondary education establishments (collège and lycée) * École (river), a tributary of the Seine flowing in région Île-de-France * École, S ...

from 1971 to 2003. Claude was the disciple of

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and worked with him on the

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of the muon. He became honorary research director as of 2003. Philippe Meyer rand Claude supervised the diploma (Thèse de troisième cycle) and doctorate (

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) or

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and André Neveu at

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. His wife Marie-Anne Bouchiat, a physicist, and their daughter Hélène Bouchiat, also a physicist, are both members of the French Academy of sciences.

Distinctions

* 1980: Elected correspondent of the French Academy of Sciences in the Physics section * 1983:

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de l’Électricité de France by the French Academy of sciences * 1990: Three Physicists Prize by the École normale supérieure de ParisNotice biographique de Claude Bouchiat, Correspondant de l’Académie des sciences, PDF
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