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Alain Aspect

1947 - Today

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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 474,162 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Alain Aspect is the 429th most popular physicist (up from 433rd in 2019), the 2,700th most popular biography from France (down from 2,659th in 2019) and the 48th most popular French Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Alain Aspect ranks 429 out of 717Before him are Jules Jamin, Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, Yulii Khariton, Walther Gerlach, Rudolf Peierls, and Evgeny Lifshitz. After him are Sameera Moussa, Marie Alfred Cornu, John Dollond, Gene Amdahl, Gaspard de Prony, and Saul Perlmutter.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1947, Alain Aspect ranks 209Before him are Nancy Fraser, Emmylou Harris, Riyoko Ikeda, Eric F. Wieschaus, Tatiana Tarasova, and Bobby Kimball. After him are Chris Wallace, Anne Archer, Robert M. Parker Jr., Joe Walsh, Mario Aurelio Poli, and Mustafa Akıncı.

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In France

Among people born in France, Alain Aspect ranks 2,700 out of 6,011Before him are Jack Lang (1939), Sextus Pompeius Festus (150), Philippe de Mornay (1549), Lucien Muller (1934), Nicolas Froment (1430), and Jean-Pierre Raffarin (1948). After him are Georges Cadoudal (1771), Petrus Comestor (1100), André Frossard (1915), Thomas, Count of Flanders (1199), Jean de Roquetaillade (1310), and Benoît de Sainte-Maure (1154).

Among PHYSICISTS In France

Among physicists born in France, Alain Aspect ranks 48Before him are Henri Tresca (1814), Jacques-Arsène d'Arsonval (1851), Louis Poinsot (1777), Louis Paul Cailletet (1832), Auguste Bravais (1811), and Jules Jamin (1818). After him are Marie Alfred Cornu (1841), Gaspard de Prony (1755), Jean Léonard Marie Poiseuille (1797), Jacques Babinet (1794), Jules Antoine Lissajous (1822), and Claude Pouillet (1790).