Alain Aspect

Alain Aspect
Alain Aspect
Born	15 June 1947; Agen, Lot-et-Garonne, France
Alma mater	École Normale Supérieure de Cachan; Université d'Orsay;
Known for	Aspect's experiment
Awards	Holweck Medal (1991); Wolf Prize in Physics (2010); Albert Einstein Medal (2012); ForMemRS (2015); Nobel Prize in Physics (2022);
	Scientific career
Fields	Physicist
Institutions	Institut d'Optique (Paris-Saclay University); École Polytechnique (Polytechnic Institute of Paris); Centre national de la recherche scientifique; Hong Kong Institute for Advanced Study (City University of Hong Kong);
Theses	Contribution à l'étude de la spectrographie de Fourier par holographie (1971); Trois tests expérimentaux des inégalités de Bell par mesure de corrélation de polarisation de photons (1983);
Doctoral advisor	Serge Lowenthal
Website	universite-paris-saclay.fr/alain-aspect

Alain Aspect (French: [aspɛ] ^ⓘ; born 15 June 1947) is a French physicist noted for his experimental work on quantum entanglement.

Aspect was awarded the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics, jointly with John Clauser and Anton Zeilinger, "for experiments with entangled photons, establishing the violation of Bell inequalities and pioneering quantum information science".

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