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Albert Fert
Albert Fert is a French physicist and one of the discoverers of giant magnetoresistance which brought about a breakthrough in gigabyte hard disks. Currently, he is an emeritus professor at Paris-Saclay University in Orsay, scientific director of a joint laboratory between the Centre national de la recherche scientifique and Thales Group, and adjunct professor at Michigan State University. He was a…
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science · French physicist (born 1938) · physicist · university teacher · researcher · also Albert Fert, Fert
Born 7 March 1938 · Q153219
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2025· 1 entry
2024· 1 entry
EurekAlert!: Felix Casanova and Albert Fert (IMAGE)
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2022· 1 entry
Awarded Grand Officer of the Legion of Honour (2022).
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2015· 2 entries
Awarded Grand Cross of the National Order of Merit (2015).
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idw: Neue Computertechnologien: Nobelpreisträger Albert Fert spricht an der Universität Halle
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2014· 3 entries
idw: Humboldt-Forschungspreis: Physik-Nobelpreisträger Albert Fert kommt nach Halle
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Awarded Gay-Lussac-Humboldt-Prize (2014).
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Awarded honorary doctor of the RWTH Aachen University (2014).
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2013· 2 entries
Awarded honorary doctorate of Trinity College, Dublin (2013).
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Awarded honorary doctorate from the Université de Montréal (2013).
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2012· 2 entries
Awarded Commander of the Legion of Honour (2012).
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Awarded honorary doctor of the Bar-Ilan University (2012).
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2009· 1 entry
Awarded honorary doctor of the Autonomous University of Barcelona (2009).
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2008· 2 entries
Awarded Honorary doctor of the Catholic University of Louvain (2008).
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Awarded honorary doctor of the University of Zaragoza (2008).
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2007· 4 entries
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics — for the discovery of Giant Magnetoresistance.
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Pro-physik: Albert Fert im Porträt
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Awarded Japan Prize (2007).
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Awarded Nobel Prize in Physics (2007).
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2006· 3 entries
Awarded Clarivate Citation Laureates (2006).
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Awarded honorary doctor of the University of Kaiserslautern (2006).
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Awarded Wolf Prize in Physics (2006).
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2003· 1 entry
Won CNRS Gold medal (2003).
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1997· 1 entry
Awarded EPS Europhysics Prize (1997).
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1995· 1 entry
“They were renewed by love. The heart of each held infinite sources of life for the heart of the other.”
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1994· 3 entries
Awarded James C. McGroddy Prize for New Materials (1994).
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Awarded Jean-Ricard Prize (1994).
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Won IUPAP Magnetism Award and Néel Medal (1994).
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1988· 1 entry
Albert Fert at Orsay in France, and Peter Gruenberg at Jülich in Germany, simultaneously and independently discovered giant magnetoresistance (GMR) in magnetic multilayers
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1981· 1 entry
“The Pleasure of Finding Things Out”
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1978· 1 entry
“There have been women I have loved … A lot, as discreetly as possible.”
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1975· 1 entry
“There are only four questions of value in life, Don Octavio: What is sacred? Of what is spirit made? What is worth living for? What is worth dying for? The answer to each is only love.”
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1974· 1 entry
“Address at Dedication of Wheaton College Library, 1973”
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1965· 1 entry
Fert became assistant professor at the Orsay Faculty of Sciences of the University of Paris XI (Université Paris-Sud)
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1963· 2 entries
“Life Ahead : On Learning and the Search for Meaning”
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Studied at Science Faculty of Paris, doctorate in France (1963).
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1962· 1 entry
Albert Fert graduated from the École Normale Supérieure in Paris, where he attended courses by the physicists Alfred Kastler and Jacques Friedel
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1958· 1 entry
“being to timelessness as it's to time”
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1938· 1 entry
Born 1938-03-07.
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1870· 1 entry
“Love isn't how you feel. It's what you do.”
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1817· 1 entry
“When I have fears that I may cease to be”
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1584· 1 entry
“A Handful of Pleasant Deities”
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