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Alain Aspect (French: [aspɛ] ( listen); born 15 June 1947) is a French physicist
Alain Aspect
noted for his experimental work onquantum entanglement.[2][3][4]
Contents
Education
Research
Awards and honors
References
External links
Education
Aspect is a graduate of the École Normale Supérieure de Cachan (ENS Cachan). He
passed the 'agrégation' in physics in 1969 and received his master's degree from
Université d'Orsay. He then did his national service, teaching for three years in
Aspect in 2015, portrait via the
Cameroon.
Royal Society
In the early 1980s, while working on his PhD thesis[5] from the academic rank of Born 15 June 1947
lecturer, he performed the Bell test experiments that showed that Albert Einstein, Agen, France
Boris Podolsky and Nathan Rosen's reductio ad absurdum of quantum mechanics,
Alma mater École Normale
namely that it implied 'ghostly action at a distance', did in fact appear to be realised
Supérieure de Cachan
when two particles were separated by an arbitrarily large distance (see EPR
(E.N.S., 1965)
paradox). A correlation between their wave functions remained, as they were once
part of the same wave-function that was not disturbed before one of the child Known for Bell test experiments
particles was measured. Awards Wolf Prize in Physics
(2010)
Aspect also received an honorary doctorate fromHeriot-Watt University in 2008.[6]
Albert Einstein Medal
(2012)
Research ForMemRS (2015)[1]
Aspect's experiments, following the first experiment of Stuart Freedman and John
Scientific career
Clauser in 1972, 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
Fields Physicist
locality loophole. However, his results were not completely conclusive since there Institutions Institut d'Optique
were loopholes that allowed for alternative explanations that comply with local École Polytechnique
realism.[7] Centre national de la
recherche scientifique
After his works on Bell's inequalities, Aspect turned toward studies of laser cooling
Website www.lcf.institutoptique
of neutral atoms and is mostly involved in Bose–Einstein condensates related
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Aspect was deputy director of the French "grande école" SupOptique until 1994. He
is a member of the French Academy of Sciences and French Academy of
Technologies, and professor at the École Polytechnique. In 2005 he was awarded the
gold medal of the Centre national de la recherche scientifique, where he is Research
Director. The 2010 Wolf Prize in physics was awarded to Aspect, Anton Zeilinger
and John Clauser. In 2013 Aspect was awarded both the Niels Bohr International
Gold Medal and the UNESCO Niels Bohr Medal. In 2013 he was also awarded the
Balzan Prize for Quantum Information Processing and Communication.
Aspect at the École Polytechnique.
References
1. "Certificate of Election: EC/2015/48: Aspect, Alain"(https://www.webcitat
ion.org/6barUiX6B?url=https://collections.royalsociety.org/DServe.exe?d
sqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqDb=Catalog&dsqCmd=show .tcl&
dsqSearch=%28RefNo%3D%3D%27EC%2F2015%2F48%27%29) .
London: The Royal Society. Archived from the original (https://collection
s.royalsociety.org/DServe.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsq
Aspect on a visit to Tel Aviv
Db=Catalog&dsqCmd=show.tcl&dsqSearch=(RefNo==%27EC%2F201
University in 2010
5%2F48%27)) on 2015-09-16.
2. Experimental Realization of Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen-Bohm
Gedankenexperiment: A New Violation of Bell's Inequalities, A. Aspect,
P. Grangier, and G. Roger, Physical Review Letters, Vol. 49, Iss. 2,
pp. 91–94 (1982) doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.49.91(https://doi.org/10.110
3%2FPhysRevLett.49.91)
3. Experimental Test of Bell's Inequalities UsingTime-Varying Analyzers,
A. Aspect, J. Dalibard and G. Roger, Physical Review Letters, Vol. 49,
Iss. 25, pp. 1804–1807 (1982)doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.49.1804(http
s://doi.org/10.1103%2FPhysRevLett.49.1804)
4. Aspect, Alain (2007). "Quantum mechanics: oT be or not to be local".
Nature. 446 (7138): 866–867. Bibcode:2007Natur.446..866A (http://adsa
bs.harvard.edu/abs/2007Natur.446..866A). doi:10.1038/446866a (http
s://doi.org/10.1038%2F446866a). ISSN 0028-0836 (https://www.worldca
t.org/issn/0028-0836). PMID 17443174 (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pu
bmed/17443174).
5. CV (http://www.lcf.institutoptique.fr/Laboratoire-Charles-Fabry/Groupes-
de-recherche/Optique-atomique/Membres/Membres-permanents/Alain-
Aspect)
6. "Annual Review 2008: Principal's Review"(https://web.archive.org/web/
20160412040140/http://www1.hw.ac.uk/annual-review/2008/people_aw
ards.html). www1.hw.ac.uk. Archived from the original (http://www1.hw.a
c.uk/annual-review/2008/people_awards.html)on 2016-04-12. Retrieved
2016-03-29.
7. Reference missing
8. https://royalsociety.org/people/alain-aspect-11012/
External links
Aspect's homepage
Atom Optics group, Laboratoire Charles Fabry, Institut d'Optique
Biography at CNRS
http://www.lcf.institutoptique.fr/Groupes-de-recherche/Optique-atomique/Membres/Membres-permanents/Alain-
Aspect
http://www.academie-sciences.fr/academie/membre/Aspect_Alain.htm
Lévy Statistics and Laser Cooling: http://www.cambridge.org/us/knowledge/isbn/item1169242/?site_locale=en_US
Speakable and Unspeakable in Quantum Mechanics : http://www.cambridge.org/us/knowledge/isbn/item1149699/?
site_locale=en_US
Introduction to Quantum Optics:
http://www.cambridge.org/us/knowledge/isbn/item2712310/Introduction%20to%20Quantum%20Optics/?
site_locale=en_US
Alain Aspect International Balzan Prize Foundation
Videos of Alain Aspect in the AV-Portal of the German National Library of Science and T
echnology
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