He completed a Ph.D. in 1960 titled La règle de sélection ΔT=0 dans les transitions de Fermi et la théorie de l'interaction vectorielle en radioactivité β.
[2] Bouchiat was director of research at the CNRS in the theoretical physics laboratory of the École Normale Supérieure from 1971 to 2003.
Claude was the disciple of Louis Michel and worked with him on the anomalous magnetic dipole moment of the muon.
Philippe Meyer [fr] and Bouchiat supervised the doctorates of Joël Scherk and André Neveu at University of Paris XI in Orsay.
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