Alain Aspect
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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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| Label | Occurrences |
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| Alain Aspect canonical | 10 |
| Alain Aspect (later Nobel Prize in Physics 2022, partly for this work) | 1 |
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| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf |
French physicist
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human ⓘ physicist ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
2022 Nobel Prize in Physics
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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 Paris-Sud
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surface form:
Université d'Orsay
École normale nationale d’apprentissage de Cachan ⓘ
surface form:
École Normale Supérieure de Cachan
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| employer |
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
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surface form:
CNRS
Université Paris-Sud ⓘ École Polytechnique ⓘ |
| familyName | Aspect ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
foundations of quantum mechanics
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physics ⓘ quantum optics ⓘ quantum physics ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | Alain ⓘ |
| knownFor |
closing locality loophole in Bell tests
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contributions to quantum information science ⓘ experiments on quantum entanglement ⓘ tests of Bell inequalities ⓘ |
| languageSpoken |
English
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French ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Académie des Sciences
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French Academy of Sciences
French Academy of Engineering ⓘ
surface form:
French Academy of Technologies
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| name | Alain Aspect self-link ⓘ |
| 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
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research director at CNRS ⓘ |
| researchInterest |
nonlocality
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quantum entanglement ⓘ quantum information ⓘ |
| sharedAwardWith |
Anton Zeilinger
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John F. Clauser ⓘ |
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Alain Aspect (later Nobel Prize in Physics 2022, partly for this work)