Claude Bouchiat (16 May 1932 – 25 November 2021) was a French physicist, and member of the French Academy of sciences.^[1]

Biography

Graduate of the École Polytechnique in 1955. He completed a Ph.D. in 1960 titled La règle de sélection ΔT=0 dans les transitions de Fermi et la théorie de l'interaction vectorielle en radioactivité β.^[2]

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 and Bouchiat supervised the doctorates of 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^[3]
• 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^[4]

Personal life

Bouchiat married Marie-Anne Bouchiat, and they have a daughter called Hélène Bouchiat.^[5]

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