Albert Fert

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Albert Fert is a French physicist and Nobel laureate renowned for co-discovering giant magnetoresistance, a breakthrough that revolutionized data storage technology.

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instanceOf Nobel laureate
human
physicist
awardReceived CNRS Gold Medal NERFINISHED
Grand Cross of the Légion d'honneur NERFINISHED
Nobel Prize in Physics
Wolf Prize in Physics NERFINISHED
coDiscovererOf giant magnetoresistance
contributedTo development of modern hard disk drive read heads
countryOfCitizenship France
dateOfBirth 1938-03-07
doctoralThesisTopic transport properties of electrons in metals
educatedAt University of Paris-Sud NERFINISHED
École Normale Supérieure NERFINISHED
employer CNRS NERFINISHED
Thales Group NERFINISHED
Université Paris-Sud NERFINISHED
familyName Fert NERFINISHED
fieldOfWork condensed matter physics
physics
spintronics
givenName Albert NERFINISHED
hasAcademicAdvisor Ivar Waller NERFINISHED
influenced development of spintronic devices
influencedField data storage technology
knownFor giant magnetoresistance
spin-dependent transport in magnetic multilayers
languageSpoken French
memberOf Academia Europaea NERFINISHED
Académie des Sciences
surface form: French Academy of Sciences
name Albert Fert NERFINISHED
nationality French
NobelPrizeCategory Physics NERFINISHED
NobelPrizeMotivation discovery of giant magnetoresistance
notableConcept giant magnetoresistance NERFINISHED
occupation research scientist
university professor
placeOfBirth Carcassonne, France NERFINISHED
positionHeld professor at Université Paris-Sud
scientific director at Unité Mixte de Physique CNRS/Thales
researchInterest magnetic nanostructures
spintronics applications in electronics
residence France
sexOrGender male
sharedNobelPrizeWith Peter Grünberg NERFINISHED

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