Marie-Anne Bouchiat-Guiochon (born 1934) is a French

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atomic physicist whose research has included studies of

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s, parity violation, and hyperpolarization. She is an honorary director of research for the

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(CNRS).

Education and career

Bouchiat was a student at the

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from 1953 to 1957, and a visiting researcher at

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from 1957 to 1959. She completed a doctorate in 1964; her dissertation was ''Étude par pompage optique de la relaxation d'atomes de rubidium''. She worked as a researcher for CNRS from 1972, associated with the

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, until her retirement in 2005.

Personal life

Bouchiat married physicist

Claude Bouchiat Claude Bouchiat, born 16 May 1932, is a French physicist, member of the French Academy of sciences. Biography Graduate of the École Polytechnique in 1955, he was director of research at the CNRS in the theoretical physics laboratory of the � ...

; two of their children, Hélène Bouchiat and Vincent Bouchiat, are also physicists.

Recognition

Bouchiat was elected as a corresponding member of the French Academy of Sciences in 1986, and a full member in 1988. She became a member of

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in 1993. She won the CNRS bronze and silver medals in 1966 and 1971 respectively. The French Academy of Sciences gave her their Hughes Prize in 1968, and the

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in 1983. She is a knight in the

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, a commander in the

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, and a commander in the

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References

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