Michel Gaudin was born on 2 December 1931. After graduating with the degree of
ingénieur des ponts et chaussées (civil engineer), Gaudin joined in 1956 the
CEA in
Saclay to work on neutron experiments. Two years later, he joined
Claude Bloch's theorists' working group, to which he belonged for the rest of his career. In 1967 he received from the
University of Paris-Sud in Orsay his doctoral degree in physics with thesis ''Étude d'un modèle à une dimension pour un système de fermions en interaction''. Gaudin received the Fondation Saintour Prize, awarded every two years since 1889 by the
Collège de France. In 2019, he received, with two other physicists, the
Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics from the
American Physical Society. Gaudin died on 4 August 2023, at the age of 91. == Publications ==