Alain Aspect

_Alain Aspect is a physicist from France. He was born on June 15 of 1947 in Agen of France. Alain Aspect is known for his experiments illuminating the most intriguing properties of quantum mechanics.

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Aspect was the deputy director of the French "grande ecole" SupOptique until 1994.

His Bell's inequalities tests with pairs of entangled photons (1982) have contributed to settle a debate between Albert Einstein and Nils Bohr, started in 1935. He has also, with Philippe Grangier, given a striking demonstration of wave-particle duality for a single photon, and realized the Wheeler's delayed choice experiment.

After his contribution to the development of laser cooling of atoms, with Claude Cohen-Tannoudji (1985-1992), he has switched to atom optics, where the group he has established revisits landmarks in quantum optics and develops quantum simulators of disordered materials.

He is a professor at the Institut d'Optique graduate school and at Ecole Polytechnique (University Paris-Saclay). Besides all this he is a member of several academies including the French Academy of Sciences and French Academy of Technologies, and professor at the Ecole Polytechnique.

Education

Aspect completed his graduation from "Ecole Normale Superieure de Cachan" a higher education institution Paris-Saclay University. In 1969 he owned the 'agregation' in physics and received his master’s and Ph.D. degrees from Université d'Orsay in 1971 and 1983.

Awards

Alain is the recipient of the 2013 Frederic Ives Medal, the 2012 Herbert Walther Award, and the 1999 Max Born Award from OSA. He has been an OSA Fellow since 2000. In 2005 he was awarded the gold medal of the Centre national de la recherche scientifique, where he is currently Research Director.

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