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Alain Jean Aspect is a French physicist and university teacher born in Agen in 1947. He works in the field of quantum physics and has served as a professor and visiting professor at institutions including the École normale supérieure Paris-Saclay, Collège de France, National Center for Scientific Research, École Supérieure d'Optique, and Paris-Saclay University. He was educated at the École normale supérieure Paris-Saclay and the University of Paris-Sud.
Aspect is a member of the French Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Sciences, the Royal Society, and the Austrian Academy of Sciences. He has received the Niels Bohr International Gold Medal, the UNESCO Niels Bohr Medal, the CNRS Gold medal, and the Frederic Ives Medal. He speaks French and English and has supervised doctoral students such as Alain Bernard.
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Nobel Prize
- The Nobel Prize in Physics2022
“for experiments with entangled photons, establishing the violation of Bell inequalities and pioneering quantum information science”
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- University of Paris-Sud
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- English language
- Field of work
- quantum physics
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- www.lcf.institutoptique.fr/groupes-de-recherche/gaz-quantiques/membres/permanents/alain-aspect
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Encyclopedic overview
Alain Jean Aspect ( French: [aspɛ] ; born 15 June 1947) is a French physicist noted for his experimental work on quantum entanglement. Aspect's experiment (1980–1982) bears his name.
Aspect was awarded the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics, jointly with John Clauser and Anton Zeilinger, "for experiments with entangled photons, establishing the violation of Bell inequalities and pioneering quantum information science".
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