In 1969, he received his diploma (Thèse de troisième cycle) at University of Paris XI in Orsay with Philippe Meyer [fr] and Claude Bouchiat and in 1971 he completed his doctorate (Doctorat d'État) there.
[1] From 1971 to 1974, Neveu was at the Laboratory for High Energy Physics of the University of Paris XI where he and Scherk showed that spin-1 excitations of strings could describe Yang–Mills theories.
[2] In 1971, Neveu with John Schwarz in Princeton developed, at the same time as Pierre Ramond (1971), the first string theory that also described fermions (called RNS formalism after its three originators).
[4] With Roger Dashen and Brosl Hasslacher, he examined, among other things, quantum-field-theoretic models of extended hadrons and semiclassical approximations in quantum field theory which are reflected in the DHN method of the quantization of solitons.
[5] In 1988, he received the Gentner-Kastler Prize awarded jointly by the Société Française de Physique and the Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft (DPG).