Physics:École de physique des Houches

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Summer, 1972, discussion in main lecture hall. From left, Yuval Ne'eman, Bryce DeWitt, Kip Thorne, Demetrios Christodoulou.

L’École de Physique des Houches (the Physics School of Les Houches) was founded in 1951 by a young French scientist, Cécile DeWitt-Morette.

Historically the first lessons were given in 1951 by Léon Van Hove on quantum mechanics. The conditions were very spartan with the lessons lasting eight weeks in alpine chalets devoid of all comforts, a few kilometers from the village of Les Houches.

Soon, the school rapidly attracted the greatest names of modern physics, such as Enrico Fermi, Wolfgang Pauli, Murray Gell-Mann and John Bardeen amongst others. The young students, then unknown, included such future scientists as Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, Georges Charpak, and Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, all future winners of the Nobel prize for Physics, as well as mathematician Alain Connes, future winner of the Fields medal.

Summer school sessions

1990

July 1990 : quantum optics, non-linear optics and laser cooling

Teachers
Visitors
Notable participants

1954

Teachers

1951

Attendees

This table records attendees who later went on to receive either the Nobel prize for physics or the Fields medal.

Attendee Year(s) attended École de physique des Houches Prize Year prize awarded
Philip W. Anderson 1967 Nobel prize 1977
Alain Aspect 1982, 2016 Nobel prize 2022
John Bardeen 1956 Nobel prize 1956, 1972
Nicolaas Bloembergen 1964 Nobel prize 1981
Aage Bohr 1955 Nobel prize 1975
Owen Chamberlain 1957 Nobel prize 1959
Steven Chu 1999 Nobel prize 1997
Claude Cohen-Tannoudji 1955, 1964 Nobel prize 1997
Alain Connes 1970 Fields medal 1982
Leon Neil Cooper Nobel prize 1972
Eric Allin Cornell 1999 Nobel prize 2001
François Englert 1979 Nobel prize 2013
Enrico Fermi 1954 Nobel prize 1938
Albert Fert 2012 Nobel prize 2007
Richard Feynman 1976 Nobel prize 1965
Roy J. Glauber 1954, 1964 Nobel prize 2005
Murray Gell-Mann 1952 Nobel prize 1969
Pierre-Gilles de Gennes 1953, 1967 Nobel prize 1991
David Gross 1975 Nobel prize 2004
F. Duncan M. Haldane 2008 Nobel prize 2016
Serge Haroche 1990 Nobel prize 2012
Gerardus t'Hooft 1975 Nobel prize 1999
J. Hans D. Jensen 1953 Nobel prize 1963
Alfred Kastler 1951 Nobel prize 1966
Wolfgang Ketterle 1999, 2010 Nobel prize 2001
Walter Kohn 1951, 1967 Nobel prize in Chemistry 1998
Willis Lamb 1964 Nobel prize 1955
Tsung-Dao Lee 1975 Nobel prize 1957
Anthony James Leggett 1985 Nobel prize 2003
Syukuro Manabe 1999 Nobel prize 2021
Arthur Bruce McDonald 1994 Nobel prize 2003
Ben Roy Mottelson 1958 Nobel prize 1975
Gérard Mourou 2015 Nobel prize 2018
Louis Néel 1956, 1961 Nobel prize 1970
Giorgio Parisi 2013, 2020, 2022 Nobel prize 1970
Wolfgang Pauli 1951, 1952, 1955 Nobel prize 1945
James Peebles 1979 Nobel prize 2019
Roger Penrose 1963 Nobel prize 2020
Arno Allan Penzias 1974 Nobel prize 1978
William Daniel Phillips 1999, 2010 Nobel prize 1997
Norman Foster Ramsey 1955 Nobel prize 1989
Abdus Salam 1957 Nobel prize 1979
Emilio Gino Segrè 1951 Nobel prize 1959
Brian P. Schmidt 1990 Nobel prize 2011
John Robert Schrieffer 1958 Nobel prize 1972
Julian Schwinger 1955 Nobel prize 1965
William Bradford Shockley 1953 Nobel prize 1956
Stanislav Smirnov 2010 Fields medal 2010
Jack Steinberger 1960 Nobel prize 1988
René Thom Fields medal 1958
Kip Thorne 1963, 1966, 1972, 1982 Nobel prize 2017
David Thouless 1998, 2018 Nobel prize 2016
Charles Hard Townes 1955 Nobel prize 1964
Martinus Veltman 1976 Nobel prize 1999
Eugene Wigner 1955 Nobel prize 1963
Ken Wilson 1975 Nobel prize 1982
Ed Witten Fields medal 1990
C.N. Yang 1957 Nobel prize 1957
Anton Zeilinger 2003 Nobel prize 2022

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