Les Houches School of Physics
Since 1951

A new scientific prize has been created jointly with the french Academy of Sciences "Cecile DeWitt-Morette -Ecole de Physique des Houches" Prize

Nobel Prize in Physics 1991, one of the first students of the School in 1953.

The School, Summer 2017 by Hélène Bléhaut

The 2018 snow man

"There was an exciting period culminating in the Les Houches summer school in 1972 in which we solved most of the major problems in black hole." From "My brief History", Stephen Hawking, Bantam 2013

A scenic view from the School on the Mont Blanc range.

A chalk drawing of the Mont Blanc range seen from the school

Astronomers have taken the first ever image of a black hole.