Alain Aspect | |
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| Born | 15 June 1947 Agen, Lot-et-Garonne, France |
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| Known for | Aspect's experiment |
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| Fields | Physicist |
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| Doctoral advisor | Serge Lowenthal |
| Website | universite-paris-saclay.fr/alain-aspect |
Alain Aspect (French: [aspɛ] (ⓘ); born 15 June 1947) is a French physicist. He is known for his experimental work on quantum entanglement. He won the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics with John Clauser and Anton Zeilinger. Earlier (2013), he won the Balzan Prize.
Aspect was elected a member of the Academia Europaea in 2009.