Born in Bourbon l'Archambault, January 21 1915. Died December 11 1998.
Training and professional career
- 1937-1941 : Research associate, then research fellow at CNRS
- 1941-1949 : Lecturer, then Professor of Rational Mechanics at the Strasbourg Faculty of Science
- 1945 : Lecturer in the Peccot lecture series at the Collège de France
- 1949-1952 : Professor of Mathematical Methods of Physics at the Paris Faculty of Science
- 1952-1986 : Professor of Mathematical Physics at the Collège de France
Learned societies and academies
- Foreign member of the Milan and Turin Academies of Science
- Foreign member of the Société Royale des Sciences de Liège
- 1962 : Associate member of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, Rome
- 1963 : Member of the Académie des Sciences de Paris
- 1968 : Associate Member of the Real Academia de Ciencias, Madrid
- 1975 : Associate member of the Académie Royale de Belgique, Brussels
- 1981 : Member of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences
Awards and distinctions
- 1955 : Fubini International Prize for Mathematics
- 1959 : Former President of the Société Mathématique de France
- 1966 : Commander of the Order of Merit
- 1966 : Commandeur des Palmes Académiques
- 1973 : Copernicus Medal of the Polish Academy of Sciences
- 1976 : Doctor honoris causa of the Universities of Waterloo
- 1977 : Commander of the Légion d'Honneur
- 1984 : Honorarydoctorate from the University of Coïmbra
