Awarded Honorary doctor of the University of Liège (2026).
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Alain Aspect
Alain Jean Aspect is a French physicist noted for his experimental work on quantum entanglement. Aspect's experiment (1980–1982) bears his name.
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Born 15 June 1947 · Q364997
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2026· 1 entry
2025· 1 entry
Was elected to the Académie Française
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2022· 3 entries
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics — for experiments with entangled photons, establishing the violation of Bell inequalities and pioneering quantum information science.
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Awarded Commander of the Legion of Honour (2022).
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Awarded Nobel Prize in Physics (2022).
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2015· 1 entry
Awarded Foreign Member of the Royal Society (2015).
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2014· 2 entries
Awarded Officer of the Legion of Honour (2014).
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Was named Officer of the Legion of Honour
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2013· 6 entries
Won Niels Bohr International Gold Medal (2013).
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Won Frederic Ives Medal (2013).
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Won UNESCO Niels Bohr Medal (2013).
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Awarded Balzan Prize (2013).
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Aspect was awarded both the Niels Bohr International Gold Medal and the UNESCO Niels Bohr Medal
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Was also awarded the Balzan Prize for Quantum Information Processing and Communication
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2012· 2 entries
Awarded Herbert Walther Prize (2012).
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Won Albert Einstein Medal (2012).
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2011· 3 entries
Won Medal of the City of Paris (2011).
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Awarded Clarivate Citation Laureates (2011).
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Was assigned the Medal of the City of Paris
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2010· 2 entries
Awarded Wolf Prize in Physics (2010).
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Awarded Officer of the National Order of Merit (2010).
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2005· 3 entries
Awarded Fellow of the American Physical Society (2005).
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Won CNRS Gold medal (2005).
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Was awarded the gold medal of the Centre national de la recherche scientifique, where he is Research Director
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2004· 1 entry
“Introduction: John Bell and the second quantum revolution”
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1999· 2 entries
Awarded Gay-Lussac-Humboldt-Prize (1999).
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Awarded Max Born Award (1999).
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1991· 1 entry
Awarded Holweck Prize (1991).
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1987· 1 entry
“The main difficulty in popularizing quantum physics is that we do not really know how to make images of it in our world. In this sense it is really counterintuitive.”
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1983· 3 entries
Awarded Servant Prize (1983).
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At Université Paris-Sud (today part of Paris-Saclay University)
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Studied at University of Paris-Sud, doctorate in France (1983).
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1972· 1 entry
Were considered to provide further support to the thesis that Bell's inequalities are violated in its CHSH version, in particular by closing a form of the locality loophole
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1969· 1 entry
And received his PhD degree in 1971 from the École supérieure d'optique (later known as Institut d'Optique Graduate School) of Université d'Orsay (later known as Université Paris-Sud)
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1947· 1 entry
Born 1947-06-15.
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