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
