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Alain Aspect

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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". Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Alain Aspect is the 307th most popular physicist (down from 205th in 2019), the 1,282nd most popular biography from France (down from 841st in 2019) and the 30th most popular French Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Alain Aspect ranks 307 out of 851. Before him are Walter Kohn, Friedrich Hund, Henry Way Kendall, Yuri Oganessian, Anna Mani, and Freeman Dyson. After him are Rainer Weiss, Andre Geim, Otto Robert Frisch, Dennis W. Sciama, Christoph Scheiner, and Daniel C. Tsui.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1947, Alain Aspect ranks 88. Before him are Óscar Tabárez, Sergio Badilla Castillo, Bachir Gemayel, Zahi Hawass, Mitt Romney, and Peter Sloterdijk. After him are Janet Mills, Martha Nussbaum, Dick Fosbury, Rodney Williams, Gloria Gaynor, and Mike DeWine.

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In France

Among people born in France, Alain Aspect ranks 1,282 out of 6,770. Before him are Jane Frances de Chantal (1572), Augustin Robespierre (1763), Louis-Claude Daquin (1694), André Antoine (1858), Margaret II, Countess of Flanders (1202), and François-Henri de Montmorency, duc de Luxembourg (1628). After him are Marie of France, Countess of Champagne (1145), Jean-Louis Barrault (1910), Marie Louise Élisabeth d'Orléans (1695), Charles Boyer (1899), Jean Mabillon (1632), and François Cluzet (1955).

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Among PHYSICISTS In France

Among physicists born in France, Alain Aspect ranks 30. Before him are Gérard Mourou (1944), Pierre-Gilles de Gennes (1932), Claude-Louis Navier (1785), Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier (1754), Antoine César Becquerel (1788), and Anne L'Huillier (1958). After him are Pierre Louis Dulong (1785), Félix Savart (1791), Hélène Langevin-Joliot (1927), Charles Fabry (1867), Jean Charles Athanase Peltier (1785), and Marguerite Perey (1909).

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