Claude Bouchiat (; 16 May 1932 – 25 November 2021) was a French physicist, and a member of the French Academy of Sciences.
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.
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.
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.
Bouchiat died on 22 November 2021, at the age of 89.
Distinctions 1980: Elected correspondent of the French Academy of Sciences in the Physics sectionList of members of the French Academy of Sciences 1983: Prix Ampère de l’Électricité de France by the French Academy of sciences 1990: Three Physicists Prize by the École normale supérieure de ParisNotice biographique de Claude Bouchiat, Correspondant de l’Académie des sciences, PDF
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