Editing Alain Aspect (section)

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{{Short description|French physicist (born 1947)}}
{{Infobox scientist
| name              = Alain Aspect
| image             = Alain Aspect (26341660894) (cropped).jpg
| caption           = Aspect in 2016
| birth_date        = {{birth date and age||year=1947|month=6|day=15}}
| birth_place       = [[Agen]], Lot-et-Garonne, France
| death_place       = 
| ethnicity         = 
| fields            = [[Physicist]]
| workplaces        = {{ubl|[[École supérieure d'optique|Institut d'Optique]] ([[Paris-Saclay University]])<ref name="Paris-Saclay bio" />|[[École Polytechnique]] ([[Polytechnic Institute of Paris]])<ref name="Paris-Saclay bio">{{Cite web |date=17 February 2020 |title=Alain Aspect |url=http://www.universite-paris-saclay.fr/en/alain-aspect |access-date=4 October 2022 |website=Université Paris-Saclay |language=en}}</ref>|[[Centre national de la recherche scientifique]]|[[Hong Kong Institute for Advanced Study]] ([[City University of Hong Kong]])}}
| alma_mater        = {{ubl|[[École Normale Supérieure de Cachan]]|[[Université d'Orsay]]}}
| education         = 
| doctoral_advisor  = Serge Lowenthal
| thesis1_title     = Contribution à l'étude de la spectrographie de Fourier par holographie
| thesis1_year      = 1971
| thesis1_url       = 
| thesis2_title     = Trois tests expérimentaux des inégalités de Bell par mesure de corrélation de polarisation de photons
| thesis2_year      = 1983
| thesis2_url       = https://worldcat.org/en/title/490591358
| academic_advisors = 
| doctoral_students = 
| notable_students  = 
| known_for         = [[Aspect's experiment]]
| influences        = 
| influenced        = 
| awards            = {{Plainlist|
* [[Fernand Holweck Medal and Prize|Holweck Medal]] (1991)
* [[Wolf Prize in Physics]] (2010)
* [[Albert Einstein Medal]] (2012)
* [[Fellow of the Royal Society|ForMemRS]] (2015)<ref name=royal />
* [[Nobel Prize in Physics]] (2022)}}
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| footnotes         = 
| website           = {{URL|https://www.universite-paris-saclay.fr/en/alain-aspect|universite-paris-saclay.fr/alain-aspect}}
}}

'''Alain Aspect''' ({{IPA|fr|aspɛ|lang|Fr-Aspect.oga}}; born 15 June 1947<ref name="Nobel bio">{{Cite web |title=The Nobel Prize in Physics 2022 |url=https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/2022/aspect/facts/ |access-date=4 October 2022 |website=NobelPrize.org |language=en-US}}</ref>) is a French [[physicist]] noted for his experimental work on [[quantum entanglement]].<ref>{{cite journal | last1=Aspect | first1=Alain | last2=Grangier | first2=Philippe | last3=Roger | first3=Gérard | title=Experimental Realization of Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen-BohmGedankenexperiment: A New Violation of Bell's Inequalities | journal=Physical Review Letters | publisher=American Physical Society (APS) | volume=49 | issue=2 | date=12 July 1982 | issn=0031-9007 | doi=10.1103/physrevlett.49.91 | pages=91–94| bibcode=1982PhRvL..49...91A | doi-access=free }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal | last1=Aspect | first1=Alain | last2=Dalibard | first2=Jean | last3=Roger | first3=Gérard | title=Experimental Test of Bell's Inequalities Using Time- Varying Analyzers | journal=Physical Review Letters | publisher=American Physical Society (APS) | volume=49 | issue=25 | date=20 December 1982 | issn=0031-9007 | doi=10.1103/physrevlett.49.1804 | pages=1804–1807| bibcode=1982PhRvL..49.1804A | doi-access=free }}</ref><ref name="Aspect2007">{{cite journal|last1=Aspect|first1=Alain|title=Quantum mechanics: To be or not to be local|journal=Nature|volume=446|issue=7138|year=2007|pages=866–867|issn=0028-0836|doi=10.1038/446866a|pmid=17443174|bibcode = 2007Natur.446..866A |s2cid=4397846|doi-access=free}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=17 March 2012 |title=Alain Aspect's Curriculum Vitae, Updated March 2012 |url=https://www.ae-info.org/attach/User/Aspect_Alain/CV/CV%20Alain%20Aspect%20eng%20long%202012%2003%2017.pdf |access-date=4 October 2022 |website=[[Academia Europaea]]}}</ref>

Aspect was awarded the 2022 [[Nobel Prize in Physics]], jointly with [[John Clauser]] and [[Anton Zeilinger]], "for experiments with [[Quantum entanglement|entangled photons]], establishing the violation of [[Bell inequalities]] and pioneering [[quantum information science]]".{{r|nobelprize}}