Claude Bouchiat

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'''Claude Bouchiat''' ({{IPA|fr|klod buʃja}}; 16 May 1932 – 25 November 2021) was a French physicist, and a member of the French Academy of Sciences.<ref name="bio">{{cite web |title=Claude Bouchiat |url=https://www.academie-sciences.fr/fr/Liste-des-membres-de-l-Academie-des-sciences-/-B/claude-bouchiat.html |website=l'Académie des sciences |access-date=28 January 2024}}</ref>

== 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''.<ref>{{cite thesis | last=Bouchiat | first=Claude | title=La règle de sélection ΔT=0 dans les transitions de Fermi et la théorie de l'interaction vectorielle en radioactivité β | year=1960 | oclc=43453614 | language=fr | page=}}</ref>

Bouchiat 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.

Bouchiat became an honorary research director in 2003.

{{ill|Philippe Meyer (physicist|lt=Philippe Meyer|fr|Philippe Meyer (physicien)}} and Bouchiat supervised the doctorates of Joël Scherk and André Neveu at University of Paris XI in Orsay.

===Personal life=== Bouchiat married Marie-Anne Bouchiat who is also a physicist. Their daughter Hélène Bouchiat and son Vincent Bouchiat are both condensed matter physicists.<ref name=x1953>{{cite web |url=https://1953.polytechnique.org/Itineraires/Bouchiat.html |title=Claude Bouchiat |last= |first= |date= |website=1953.polytechnique.org |publisher= |access-date=2023-12-11 |quote=}}</ref><ref>{{cite thesis |type=PhD |last=Bouchiat |first=Vincent |date=1997 |title=Quantum fluctuations of the charge in single electron and single Cooper pair devices |publisher=Université Pierre et Marie Curie |oclc=1040947759 |url=https://theses.fr/1997PA066241 |quote=Enfin, j'ai une pensée toute particulière pour mes parents, Geneviève, Hélène, et Behnaz pour leur soutien constant durant toutes ces années.}}</ref>

Bouchiat died on 22 November 2021, at the age of 89.<ref name="bio"/>

== Distinctions == * 1980: Elected correspondent of the French Academy of Sciences in the Physics section<ref>[http://www.academie-sciences.fr/fr/Liste-des-membres-de-l-Academie-des-sciences-/-B/claude-bouchiat.html List of members of the French Academy of Sciences]</ref> * 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<ref>[http://www.academie-sciences.fr/pdf/membre/BouchiatC_bio1008.pdf Notice biographique de Claude Bouchiat, Correspondant de l’Académie des sciences, PDF]</ref>

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