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 École Normale Supérieure from 1971 to 2003. Claude was the disciple of Louis Michel and worked with him on the anomalous magnetic dipole moment of the muon.
He became honorary research director as of 2003.
Philippe Meyer [fr] and Claude supervised the diploma (Thèse de troisième cycle) and doctorate (Doctorat d'État) or Joël Scherk and André Neveu at University of Paris XI in Orsay.
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[1]
- 1983: Prix Ampère de l’Électricité de France by the French Academy of sciences
- 1990: Three Physicists Prize by the École normale supérieure de Paris[2]