Seminar by Alain ASPECT, Nobel Prize in Physics
The seminar is open to all students and staff of the University of Paris-Saclay.
The seminar is open to all students and staff of the University of Paris-Saclay. Grand amphi - ENS Paris-Saclay ENS-PARIS-SACLAY webmaster@ens-paris-saclay.fr Europe/Paris public
PRACTICAL INFORMATION
ENS Paris-Saclay
4, avenue des Sciences
91190 Gif-sur-Yvette
Coming to ENS Paris-Saclay
Reception from 5.30 pm
The seminar is open to all students and staff of the University Paris-Saclay.
From Einstein's questions to qbits: a new quantum revolution?
Biography
Alain Aspect is an alumnus of ENS Paris-Saclay and affiliated professor of ENS Paris-Saclay since 2014.
He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2022 with John F. Clauser and Anton Zeilinger for their work on quantum mechanics.
Career
Alain Aspect studied from 1965 to 1969 at ENS Cachan, now ENS Paris-Saclay, and at the Faculty of Science in Orsay. He then prepared the postgraduate doctorate at the Institut d'Optique Théorique et Appliquée (Supoptique) under the direction of Serge Lowenthal.
In 1971, he defended his post-graduate thesis3 and in 1983 his State doctorate.
In 1984, he was appointed lecturer at the École Polytechnique and deputy laboratory director at the Collège de France (associated with Claude Cohen-Tannoudji's chair of atomic and molecular physics). He worked at the Hertzian spectroscopy laboratory of the École normale supérieure Paris-Saclay on the "photon recoil" method of cooling atoms by laser, for which Claude Cohen-Tannoudji was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics.
In 1992, he was appointed director of research at the CNRS at the Institut d'Optique. He was deputy director of the Institute from 1992 to 1994. He set up a new research group devoted to atomic optics, atomic mirrors and Bose-Einstein condensates.
In 1994, he was also appointed professor at the École Polytechnique.
Alain Aspect is also a member of the Académie des Sciences and the Académie des Technologies, and a foreign member of the Académie Royale des Sciences, des Lettres et des Beaux-Arts in Belgium, the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei in Italy, the National Academy of Sciences in the United States, the Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, and the Royal Society in the United Kingdom.
Prizes and awards
- 2022: Nobel Prize in Physics with John F. Clauser and Anton Zeilinger for their work on quantum mechanics
- 2021: Honorary member of Optica
- 2005: CNRS Gold Medal
- 2013: Balzan Prize.
- 2013: Niels Bohr Medal on the occasion of the celebration of the centenary of the publication of Niels Bohr's atomic model.
- 2012: Albert-Einstein medal.
- 2010: Wolf Prize in Physics, jointly with the American John F. Clauser and the Austrian Anton Zeilinger, for his conceptual and experimental contributions to quantum physics.
- 2005: CNRS gold medal.
- 1991: Winner of the Holweck Prize in 1991.