Alain Aspect

Alain Aspect
Aspect in 2016
Born (1947-06-15) June 15, 1947
Agen, Lot-et-Garonne, France
Alma mater
Known forAspect's experiment
Awards
Scientific career
FieldsPhysicist
Institutions
Theses
Doctoral advisorSerge Lowenthal
Websiteuniversite-paris-saclay.fr/alain-aspect

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".