École de physique des Houches
L’École de Physique des Houches (the Physics School of Les Houches) was founded in 1951 by a young French scientist, Cécile DeWitt-Morette.
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Summer, 1972, discussion in main lecture hall. From left, Yuval Ne'eman, Bryce DeWitt, Kip Thorne, Demetrios Christodoulou.
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
July 1990 : quantum optics, non-linear optics and laser cooling
- Director : Jean Zinn-Justin
- Coorganisers of the school : Jean Dalibard and Jean-Michel Raimond
Teachers
- Rainer Blatt
- Claude Cohen-Tannoudji (Nobel Prize 1997)
- Claude Fabre
- Serge Haroche (Nobel Prize 2012)
- H. Jeff Kimble
- Daniel Kleppner
- Luigi Lugiato
- William D. Phillips (Nobel Prize 1997)
- Wolfgang Schleich
- Yuen-Ron Shen
- Jook Walraven
Visitors
Notable participants
- Artur Ekert, Wolfson College, Oxford University, UK
- Daniel Hennequin Laboratoire de Spectroscopie Hertzienne, Université de Lille-Flandres-Artois, Villeneuve-d'Ascq, France
- Monika (Ritsch-)Marte, Institut für Theoretische Physik, University of Innsbruck, Austria
- Klaus Mølmer, Institute of Physics and Astronomy, Aarhus University, Denmark
- Olivier Pfister, Université Paris-Nord, Laboratoire de Physique des Lasers, France
- Michael Schubert, University of Hamburg, Institut fur Experimentalphysik, Germany
- Andrew Steane, Clarendon Laboratory, Oxford, UK
- Kalle-Antti Suominen, University of Helsinki, Research Institute for Theoretical Physics, Finland
Teachers
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- Participants :
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 |
References
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