Claude Bouchiat


Claude Bouchiat, born May 16, 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. He became honorary research director as of 2003.
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: Prix Ampère de l’Électricité de France by the French Academy of sciences
1990: Prize of the three physicists by the École normale supérieure de Paris