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Alain Aspect

Prize
Nobel Prize in Physics — 2022
for experiments with entangled photons, establishing the violation of Bell inequalities and pioneering quantum information science
Citizenship
France France
Languages
English, French
date of birth
6/15/1947
place of birth
Agen
Age
79 years
educated at
  • University of Paris-Sud
    • academic major: physics
    • academic degree: doctorate in France
    • end time: 1/1/1983
  • École normale supérieure Paris-Saclay
employer
  • Délégation Ile-de-France Gif-sur-Yvette (DR4)
    • start time: 10/1/1985
    • end time: 8/31/2012
  • École normale supérieure Paris-Saclay
    • end time: 1/1/1985
    • start time: 1/1/1974
  • Collège de France
    • start time: 1/1/1985
    • end time: 1/1/1992
  • National Center for Scientific Research
    • end time: 1/1/2012
    • start time: 1/1/1992
  • École Supérieure d'Optique, Paris-Saclay University
    • start time: 9/1/2012
member of
  • Academia Europaea
    • start time: 1/1/2009
  • National Academy of Sciences
    • start time: 1/1/2008
  • Royal Society
    • start time: 1/1/2015
  • Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei
    • start time: 11/15/2018
  • Académie Française
    • start time: 1/1/2025
  • French Academy of Sciences
  • French Academy of Technologies
  • Royal Academy of Science, Letters and Fine Arts of Belgium
  • Parliamentary Office for the Evaluation of Scientific and Technological Choices
  • Austrian Academy of Sciences
position held
  • professor
  • visiting professor
  • Director of Research at CNRS
field of work
  • quantum physics
doctoral student
  • Gaël Varoquaux
  • David Clément
  • Joachim von Zanthier
  • Fabrice Gerbier
  • Jérôme Estève
  • William Guerin
  • Christophe Jurczak
  • Alain Bernard
  • Arnaud Landragin
  • Robin Kaiser
  • François Bardou
  • Carsten Henkel
  • Antoine Browaeys
  • Guillaume Delannoy
occupation
  • physicist
  • university teacher
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