Born on April1 1933 in Constantine.
Education and professional career
- 1953-1957 : École normale supérieure
- 1957 : Agrégation in physical sciences
- 1957-1959 : Military service
- 1960-1964 : Research associate at CNRS
- 1962 : Doctorat d'État
- 1964-1967 : Lecturer at the Paris Faculty of Science
- 1967-1973 : Professor, Faculty of Science, Paris
- 1973-2004 : Professor at the Collège de France, chair Atomic and molecular physics
- Since 2004 : Honorary Professor at the Collège de France
Conference organization, summer school
- Scientific co-director, with A. Blandin, of the 1964 session of the École d'Été des Houches : Quantum Optics and Electronics, Gordon and Breach, 1965.
- Scientific co-director, with A. Lichnerowicz, of the colloquium organized by the Fondation Hugot of the Collège de France on : Les implications conceptuelles de la Physique Quantique, Journal de Physique, Colloque C2, supplement to n° 3, 42, March 1981.
- Scientific co-responsible, with A. Aspect, of the international colloquium organized by the Fondation Hugot du Collège de France on : Ultra-cold atoms - New perspectives for fundamental physics (Paris, March 1990).