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Elected correspondent on April 7, 1997, then member on November 29, 2005 Perpetual Secretary for 2011-2018, and Honorary Perpetual Secretary since January 201 in the Physics section.
Catherine Bréchignac is a research director at the CNRS and a specialist in atomic physics at the intersection of nuclear and molecular physics; insights gained in one of these fields can be crucial to advancing our understanding of the other.