Editing Alain Aspect (section)

==Distinctions==
Aspect was elected a [[List of Fellows of the Royal Society elected in 2015|Foreign Member of the Royal Society]] (ForMemRS) in 2015.<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://royalsociety.org/people/alain-aspect-11012/ | title=Alain Aspect &#124; Royal Society}}</ref> His certificate of election reads {{quote|For his fundamental experiments in quantum optics and atomic physics. Alain Aspect was the first to exclude subluminal communication between the measurement stations in experimental demonstrations that quantum mechanics invalidates separable hidden-variable theories and the first to demonstrate experimentally the wave–particle duality of single photons. He co-invented the technique of velocity-selective coherent population trapping, was the first to compare the [[Hanbury Brown and Twiss effect|Hanbury Brown-Twiss]] correlations of fermions and bosons under the same conditions, and the first to demonstrate Anderson localization in an ultra-cold atom system. His experiments illuminate fundamental aspects of the quantum-mechanical behaviour of single photons, photon pairs and atoms.<ref name=royal>{{cite web |url=https://collections.royalsociety.org/DServe.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqDb=Catalog&dsqCmd=show.tcl&dsqSearch=(RefNo==%27EC%2F2015%2F48%27) |title=Certificate of Election: EC/2015/48: Aspect, Alain |publisher=The Royal Society |archive-date=2019-07-08 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190708184921/https://collections.royalsociety.org/DServe.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqDb=Catalog&dsqCmd=show.tcl&dsqSearch=%28RefNo%3D%3D%27EC%2F2015%2F48%27%29 |location=London |url-status=dead }}</ref>}}

In 2005 he was awarded the gold medal of the [[Centre national de la recherche scientifique]], where he is Research Director. The 2010 [[Wolf Prize]] in physics was awarded to Aspect, [[Anton Zeilinger]] and [[John Clauser]]. In 2013 Aspect was awarded both the [[Niels Bohr International Gold Medal]] and the [[UNESCO Niels Bohr Medal]]. In 2011, he was assigned the [[Medal of the City of Paris]]. In 2013, he was also awarded the [[Balzan Prize]] for Quantum Information Processing and Communication. In 2014, he was named Officer of the [[Legion of Honour]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.inp.cnrs.fr/fr/cnrsinfo/alain-aspect-nomme-membre-honoraire-doptica|title=Alain Aspect nommé membre honoraire d'Optica|website=cnrs.fr|date=4 March 2022 }}</ref>

Asteroid [[33163 Alainaspect]], discovered by astronomers at [[Centre de recherches en géodynamique et astrométrie|Caussols]] in 1998, was named after him.<ref name="MPC-object" /> The official {{MoMP|33163|naming citation}} was published by the [[Minor Planet Center]] on 8 November 2019 ({{small|[[Minor Planet Circulars|M.P.C.]] 118220}}).<ref name="MPC-Circulars-Archive" />

Aspect was awarded the 2022 [[Nobel Prize in Physics]] alongside [[John Clauser|John F. Clauser]] and [[Anton Zeilinger]] "for experiments with entangled [[Photon|photons]], establishing the violation of [[Bell's theorem|Bell's inequalities]] and pioneering quantum information science".<ref name="nobelprize"/>