Biography

Born December 20 1934, Paris. Died on October 21 2015.

Education and professional career

  • Lycée Montaigne - Lycée Louis le Grand
  • École Polytechnique (class of 1953)
  • École nationale supérieure des Mines
  • 1959-1973 : French Atomic Energy Commission
  • 1973-2004 : Professor at the Collège de France, Chair of Corpuscular Physics

Long-term stays

  • 1957-1958 : CERN (Geneva)
  • 1958 : University of Algiers
  • 1960-1961 : University of California, Berkeley
  • 1961-1962, 1965-1966 : Princeton University