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Alain Aspect

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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". Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alain Aspect has received more than 499,934 page views. His biography is available in 54 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Alain Aspect is the 205th most popular physicist (up from 429th in 2019), the 841st most popular biography from France (up from 2,691st in 2019) and the 22nd most popular French Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Alain Aspect ranks 205 out of 851. Before him are Anton Zeilinger, Pyotr Kapitsa, Francesco Maria Grimaldi, Michio Kaku, David J. Wineland, and Mihajlo Pupin. After him are Arthur Leonard Schawlow, Robert Hofstadter, Richard E. Taylor, James Cronin, David J. Thouless, and David Lee.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1947, Alain Aspect ranks 51. Before him are Richard Griffiths, Ronnie Wood, Zahi Hawass, James Woods, Michio Kaku, and Stan Kroenke. After him are Bachir Gemayel, Tostão, Dick Fosbury, Jonathan Pryce, Aaron Ciechanover, and César Gaviria.

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In France

Among people born in France, Alain Aspect ranks 841 out of 6,770. Before him are Françoise Marie de Bourbon (1677), Bourvil (1917), Max Jacob (1876), Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (1755), Célestin Freinet (1896), and Jean-Pierre Léaud (1944). After him are Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sévigné (1626), Henri Fantin-Latour (1836), Lorin Maazel (1930), Georges Couthon (1755), Pierre Lescot (1515), and Paul Reynaud (1878).

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Among PHYSICISTS In France

Among physicists born in France, Alain Aspect ranks 22. Before him are Paul Langevin (1872), Augustin-Jean Fresnel (1788), Jacques Charles (1763), Albert Fert (1938), Benoît Paul Émile Clapeyron (1799), and Louis Néel (1904). After him are Edme Mariotte (1620), Gérard Mourou (1944), Claude-Louis Navier (1785), Pierre-Gilles de Gennes (1932), Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier (1754), and Edmond Becquerel (1820).

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