Editing Alain Aspect (section)

==Education==
Aspect is a graduate of the [[École Normale Supérieure de Cachan]] (ENS Cachan, today part of [[Paris-Saclay University]]).<ref name="Paris-Saclay bio"/> He passed the ''[[agrégation]]'' in physics in 1969 and received his PhD degree in 1971 from the [[École supérieure d'optique]] (later known as [[Institut d'Optique Graduate School]]) of [[Université d'Orsay]] (later known as [[Université Paris-Sud]]). He then taught for three years in [[Cameroon]] as a replacement for then compulsory military service.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://lejournal.cnrs.fr/articles/alain-aspect-prix-nobel-de-physique-2022|title=Alain Aspect, prix Nobel de physique 2022|website=cnrs.fr}}</ref>

In the early 1980s, while working on his [[doctorat d'État]] (habilitation thesis),<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.lcf.institutoptique.fr/Laboratoire-Charles-Fabry/Groupes-de-recherche/Optique-atomique/Membres/Membres-permanents/Alain-Aspect |title=CV |access-date=5 March 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120320235525/http://www.lcf.institutoptique.fr/Laboratoire-Charles-Fabry/Groupes-de-recherche/Optique-atomique/Membres/Membres-permanents/Alain-Aspect |archive-date=20 March 2012 |url-status=dead }}</ref> he performed the [[Bell test experiments]] that showed that [[Albert Einstein]], [[Boris Podolsky]] and [[Nathan Rosen]]'s putative [[reductio ad absurdum]] of [[quantum mechanics]], namely that it implied '[[quantum entanglement|ghostly action at a distance]]', did in fact appear to be realized when two [[Elementary particle|particle]]s were separated by an arbitrarily large distance (see [[EPR paradox]] and [[Aspect's experiment]]). A correlation between the particles' [[wave function]]s remains, as long as they were once part of the same undisturbed wave function before one of the child particles was measured. He defended his [[doctorat d'État]] in 1983 at Université Paris-Sud (today part of Paris-Saclay University).<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.radiofrance.fr/franceinter/qui-est-alain-aspect-ce-chercheur-francais-co-laureat-du-prix-nobel-de-physique-6227411|title=Qui est Alain Aspect, ce chercheur français co-lauréat du prix Nobel de physique ?|website=radiofrance.fr|date=4 October 2022 }}</ref>

Aspect received an honorary doctorate from [[Heriot-Watt University]] in 2008.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www1.hw.ac.uk/annual-review/2008/people_awards.html |title=Annual Review 2008: Principal's Review |website=www1.hw.ac.uk |access-date=29 March 2016 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160412040140/http://www1.hw.ac.uk/annual-review/2008/people_awards.html |archive-date=12 April 2016 }}</ref>