Claude Bouchiat (16 May 1932 – 25 November 2021) was a French physicist, and a member of the

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Biography

Graduate of the

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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''. Bouchiat was director of research at the

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in the theoretical physics laboratory of the

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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

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. Bouchiat became an honorary research director in 2003. and Bouchiat supervised the doctorates of Joël Scherk and André Neveu at University of Paris XI in

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Personal life

Bouchiat married Marie-Anne Bouchiat who is also a physicist. His daughter

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and son Vincent Bouchiat are both

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. Bouchiat died on 22 November 2021, at the age of 89.

Distinctions

* 1980: Elected correspondent of the

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in the Physics section * 1983: Prix Ampère de l’Électricité de France by the French Academy of sciences * 1990:

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References

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