Alain Aspect

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French physicist human physicist

Alain Aspect is a French physicist renowned for his groundbreaking experiments on quantum entanglement that confirmed key predictions of quantum mechanics and contributed to his sharing the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics.

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	French physicist → human → physicist →
awardReceived	2022 Nobel Prize in Physics → Albert Einstein Medal → CNRS Gold Medal → Max Born Award → Nobel Prize in Physics → Quantum Electronics Prize of the European Physical Society → Wolf Prize in Physics →
countryOfCitizenship	France →
dateOfBirth	1947-06-15 →
doctoralAdvisor	Claude Cohen-Tannoudji →
educatedAt	Université d'Orsay NERFINISHED → École Normale Supérieure de Cachan NERFINISHED →
employer	CNRS → Université Paris-Sud NERFINISHED → École Polytechnique NERFINISHED →
familyName	Aspect →
fieldOfWork	foundations of quantum mechanics → physics → quantum optics → quantum physics →
gender	male →
givenName	Alain →
knownFor	closing locality loophole in Bell tests → contributions to quantum information science → experiments on quantum entanglement → tests of Bell inequalities →
languageSpoken	English → French →
memberOf	French Academy of Sciences → French Academy of Technologies →
name	Alain Aspect →
nationality	French →
NobelPrizeCategory	Physics →
NobelPrizeMotivation	experiments with entangled photons, establishing the violation of Bell inequalities and pioneering quantum information science →
NobelPrizeYear	2022 →
notableExperiment	Aspect experiment on Bell inequality tests (1982) →
placeOfBirth	Agen, France →
positionHeld	professor at École Polytechnique → research director at CNRS →
researchInterest	nonlocality → quantum entanglement → quantum information →
sharedAwardWith	Anton Zeilinger → John F. Clauser →

Referenced by (4)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
École Polytechnique →	hasAlumnus
Wolf Prize in Physics →	hasLaureate
Albert Einstein Medal →	hasRecipient
Alain Aspect →	name