Alain Aspect

Alain Aspect
Alain Aspect
	Aspect in 2016
Born	15 June 1947 (age 76); Agen, Lot-et-Garonne, France
Alma mater	École Normale Supérieure de Cachan; Université d'Orsay;
Known for	Aspect's experiment
Awards	Holweck Medal (1991); Wolf Prize in Physics (2010); Albert Einstein Medal (2012); ForMemRS (2015); Nobel Prize in Physics (2022);
	Scientific career
Fields	Physicist
Institutions	Institut d'Optique (Paris-Saclay University); École Polytechnique (Polytechnic Institute of Paris); Centre national de la recherche scientifique; Hong Kong Institute for Advanced Study (City University of Hong Kong);
Theses	Contribution à l'étude de la spectrographie de Fourier par holographie (1971); Trois tests expérimentaux des inégalités de Bell par mesure de corrélation de polarisation de photons (1983);
Doctoral advisor	Serge Lowenthal
Website	universite-paris-saclay.fr/alain-aspect

Alain Aspect (French: [aspɛ] ^ⓘ; born 15 June 1947^[3]) is a French physicist noted for his experimental work on quantum entanglement.^[4]^[5]^[6]^[7]

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".^[8]

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^ ^a ^b "Alain Aspect". Université Paris-Saclay. 17 February 2020. Retrieved 4 October 2022.
^ "The Nobel Prize in Physics 2022". NobelPrize.org. Retrieved 4 October 2022.
^ Aspect, Alain; Grangier, Philippe; Roger, Gérard (12 July 1982). "Experimental Realization of Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen-BohmGedankenexperiment: A New Violation of Bell's Inequalities". Physical Review Letters. 49 (2). American Physical Society (APS): 91–94. Bibcode:1982PhRvL..49...91A. doi:10.1103/physrevlett.49.91. ISSN 0031-9007.
^ Aspect, Alain; Dalibard, Jean; Roger, Gérard (20 December 1982). "Experimental Test of Bell's Inequalities Using Time- Varying Analyzers". Physical Review Letters. 49 (25). American Physical Society (APS): 1804–1807. Bibcode:1982PhRvL..49.1804A. doi:10.1103/physrevlett.49.1804. ISSN 0031-9007.
^ Aspect, Alain (2007). "Quantum mechanics: To be or not to be local". Nature. 446 (7138): 866–867. Bibcode:2007Natur.446..866A. doi:10.1038/446866a. ISSN 0028-0836. PMID 17443174. S2CID 4397846.
^ "Alain Aspect's Curriculum Vitae, Updated March 2012" (PDF). Academia Europaea. 17 March 2012. Retrieved 4 October 2022.
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Alain Aspect
Aspect in 2016
Born	(1947-06-15) 15 June 1947 (age 76) Agen, Lot-et-Garonne, France
Alma mater	École Normale Supérieure de Cachan Université d'Orsay
Known for	Aspect's experiment
Awards	Holweck Medal (1991) Wolf Prize in Physics (2010) Albert Einstein Medal (2012) ForMemRS (2015)^[1] Nobel Prize in Physics (2022)
Scientific career
Fields	Physicist
Institutions	Institut d'Optique (Paris-Saclay University)^[2] École Polytechnique (Polytechnic Institute of Paris)^[2] Centre national de la recherche scientifique Hong Kong Institute for Advanced Study (City University of Hong Kong)
Theses	Contribution à l'étude de la spectrographie de Fourier par holographie (1971) Trois tests expérimentaux des inégalités de Bell par mesure de corrélation de polarisation de photons (1983)
Doctoral advisor	Serge Lowenthal

Website	universite-paris-saclay.fr/alain-aspect