Patrice Bouchet

{{Short description|French astrophysicist (born 1963)}}

{{autobiography|date=December 2015}}

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| name = Patrice Jean Emmanuel Bouchet de Puyraimond

| image = Moi Patrice Bouchet.jpg

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| caption = Bouchet in 2013

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=y|1953|3|28}}

| birth_place = Brest, France

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| doctoral_advisor = Lodewijk Woltjer

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| known_for = Neptune's rings
Mid-Infrared Observations of Supernova SN 1987A
The extinction law in the Small Magellanic Cloud

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| field = astronomy
astrophysics

| work_institutions = ESO, NOAO/Aura, Inc, CEA-Saclay

| prizes = Several "Significant Achievement Award” from NASA and ESA; "RHG Exceptional Achievement for Engineering Team to ISIM Cryo Vacuum Test Team for the James Webb Space Telescope Integrated ScienceModule", Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA

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Patrice Jean Emmanuel Bouchet de Puyraimond is a French astrophysicist best known for his discovery of the Rings of Neptune,{{cite journal |first=J. |last=Manfroid|author2=Haefner, R.|author3=Bouchet, P.|title=New evidence for a ring around Neptune|journal= Astronomy and Astrophysics|date=1986|volume=157|issue=1|page=L3 |bibcode=1986A&A...157L...3M}} his infrared observations of supernova SN 1987A in the Large Magellanic Cloud,{{cite journal |first=P. |last=Bouchet|author2=Dwek, E.|author3=Danziger, J.|author4=Arendt, R.G.|author5=De Buizer, I.J.|author6=Park, S.|author7=Suntzeff, N.B.|author8=Kirschner, R.B|author9=Challis, P.|title=SN 1987A after 18 Years: Mid-Infrared Gemini and Spitzer Observations of the Remnant|journal=The Astrophysical Journal|date=2006|volume=650|issue=1|pages=212–227|bibcode=2006ApJ...650..212B|arxiv = astro-ph/0601495 |doi = 10.1086/505929 }} and the dust extinction law in the Small Magellanic Cloud.{{cite journal |first=P. |last=Bouchet|author2=Lequeux, J.|author3=Maurice, E.|author4=Prévot, L.|author5=Prévot-Burnichon, M.L.|title=The visible and infrared extinction law and the gas-to-dust ratio in the Small Magellanic Cloud|journal= Astronomy and Astrophysics|date=1986|volume=149|issue=2|page=330 |bibcode=1985A&A...149..330B}}