[1] Daudel spent almost the entirety of his career as professor at the Sorbonne and director of a laboratory of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS).
[2] He served as President of the European Academy of Arts Sciences and Humanities,[2] in Paris, France.
Daudel was a founding member and Honorary President of the International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science.
[3] An author as well as an academic, Raymond Daudel authored several books, including Quantum chemistry, originally with R. Lefebyre and C. Moser in 1959 (Interscience Publishers, Inc., New York) and later with G. Leroy, D. Peeters, and M. Sana, published by Wiley in 1983.
[2] He was responsible for the organization of the first International Congress in Quantum Chemistry, held in Menton, France in 1973.