Born on December 20, 1934, in 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, holder of the Chair of Particle Physics
Long-term assignments
- 1957–1958: CERN (Geneva)
- 1958: University of Algiers
- 1960–1961: University of California, Berkeley
- 1961–1962, 1965–1966: Princeton University