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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.
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
Christian Borde
Claude Cohen-Tannoudji (Nobel prize 1997)
Daniel Delande
Claude Fabre
Serge Haroche (Nobel prize 2012)
Philippe Jacquier
H. Jeff Kimble
Daniel Kleppner
Luigi Lugiato
William D. Phillips (Nobel prize 1997)
Wolfgang Schleich
Yuen-Ron Shen
Jook Walraven
H. Walther
Visitors
Alain Aspect
Philippe Grangier
Participants
Charles Adams (physicist), Department of Physics and Applied Physics, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland
Michele Barsanti, Scuola Normala Superiore, Piazza dei Cavalieri, Pisa, Italy
Craig Blockley, Department of Physics, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
Massimo Brambilla (physicist), Dipartimento di Fisica, Universita di Milano, Milano, Italy
Robert Brecha, Bridge Laboratory of Physics, Caltech, Pasadena, United States
Michel Brune, Laboratoire de Spectroscopie Hertzienne, de l'Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France
Patrice Cacciani, Laboratoire Aime Cotton, Orsay, France
Pere Colet, Departament de Fisica, Universitat de les Illes Balears, Palma de Mallorca, Spain
Jean-Michel Courty, Laboratoire de Spectroscopie Hertzienne, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France
Job De Kleuver, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Faculteit Natuurkunde en Sterrenkunde, Amsterdam, Netherlands
John M. Doyle, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, United States
Artur Ekert, Wolfson College, Oxford University, Oxford, UK
Christoph Gerz, Laboratoire de Spectroscopie Hertzienne, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France
Kurt Gibble, Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics, University of Colorado, Boulder, United States
Olivier Gorceix, Université Paris-Nord, Laboratoire de Physique des Lasers, Villetaneuse, France
Jan Grochmaliki, Institute for Theoretical Physics, Polish Academy of Science, Warsaw, Poland
Mike Hayden (physicist), Department Of Physics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Daniel Hennequin Laboratoire de Spectroscopie Hertzienne, Université de Lille-Flandres-Artois, Villeneuve d'Asq, France
Wenyue Hsu, Physics Department, Harvard University, Cambridge, United States
Bruno Huttner, Department of Physics, Technion, Haifa, Israel
Michel Joffe, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, United States
Ron Kroon (physicist), Natuurkundig Laboratorium, Universiteit van Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Wofgang Lange, Universitat Muenchen, Germany
Jom Luiten, Natuurkundig Laboratorium, Universiteit van Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Paulo Maia Neto, Departamento de Fisica, Pontificia Universidade Catolica do Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
Monika (Ritsch-)Marte, Institut für Theoretische Physik, Universität Innsbruck, Austria
Klaus Molmer, Institute of Physics, University of Arhus, Denmark
Marcos Oria, Universite Paris-Nord, Laboratoire de Physique des Lasers, France
Nicolas Pettiaux, Université libre de Bruxelles, Bruxelles, Belgique
Olivier Pfister, Université Paris-Nord, Laboratoire de Physique des Lasers, France
Franco Prati, Dipartimento di Fisica, Universita di Milano, Italy
Laurence Pruvost, Laboratoire Aime Cotton, France
Georg Raithel, Universitat Munchen, Germany
Helmut Ritsch, Institut für Theoretische Physik, Universität Innsbruck, Austria
Jean-Francois Roch, Institut d'Optique, Universite Paris-Sud, France
Vahid Sandoghdar, Yale Physics Department, United States
Michale Schubert, Universitat Hamburg, Institut fur Experimentalphysik, Germany
Erik Schumacher, Optical Sciences Center, University of Arizona, United States
Klaus Sengstock, Insitut fur Angewandte Physik, Germany
Brain Sheehy, Department of Physics, State University of New York at Stony Brook, United States
Ingo Siemers, Universitat Hamburg, Institut fur experimentalphysik, Germany
Robert Spreuuw, Huygens Laboratorium, The Netherlands
Andrew Steane, Clarendon Laboratory, Oxford, Grande Bretagne
Uwe Steer, Insitut fur Angewandte Physik, Germany
Kalle-Antti Suominen, Université d'Helsinki, Research Institute for Theoretical Physics, Finland
Krysztof Szymaniec, Instytut Fizyki, Poland
Guglielmo Tino, Dipatimento de Scienze Fisiche, Universita di Napoli, Italy
Steve van Enck, Fysisch Laboratorium, Rijksuniversiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands
Suzanne Yoakum, Department of Physics, State University of New York at Stony Brook, United States
Freeman Dyson
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Corganisateurs de l'école :
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Participants :
Claude Cohen-Tannoudji
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