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Albert Fert

1938 - Today

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Albert Fert (French: [albɛʁ fɛʁ]; born 7 March 1938) is a French physicist and one of the discoverers of giant magnetoresistance which brought about a breakthrough in gigabyte hard disks. Currently, he is an emeritus professor at Paris-Saclay University in Orsay, scientific director of a joint laboratory (Unité mixte de recherche) between the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (National Scientific Research Centre) and Thales Group, and adjunct professor at Michigan State University. He was awarded the 2007 Nobel Prize in Physics together with Peter Grünberg. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Albert Fert is the 121st most popular physicist (up from 152nd in 2019), the 403rd most popular biography from France (up from 636th in 2019) and the 12th most popular French Physicist.

Albert Fert is most famous for his work in the field of solid state physics. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2007 for his work on the physical properties of materials.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Albert Fert ranks 121 out of 851. Before him are Walther Bothe, Peter Grünberg, Willis Lamb, Ernst Ruska, Arnold Sommerfeld, and François Arago. After him are Owen Chamberlain, Anders Jonas Ångström, Joseph von Fraunhofer, Rosalyn Sussman Yalow, Alfred Kastler, and Josiah Willard Gibbs.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1938, Albert Fert ranks 19. Before him are Islam Karimov, Nico, Jerry Brown, Farah Pahlavi, Christopher Lloyd, and Alberto Fujimori. After him are Klaus Schwab, Joe Dassin, Luis Aragonés, J. J. Cale, Bob Kahn, and Tomas Lindahl.

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In France

Among people born in France, Albert Fert ranks 403 out of 6,770. Before him are Raymond Kopa (1931), Odilon Redon (1840), Louis Antoine de Saint-Just (1767), Louis IV of France (920), Gustave Moreau (1826), and Jules Rimet (1873). After him are Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi (1834), Julien Offray de La Mettrie (1709), Jean-Pierre Sauvage (1944), Charles, Count of Valois (1270), Patrice de MacMahon (1808), and Françoise d'Aubigné, Marquise de Maintenon (1635).

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Among PHYSICISTS In France

Among physicists born in France, Albert Fert ranks 12. Before him are Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis (1792), Henry Cavendish (1731), Léon Foucault (1819), Frédéric Joliot-Curie (1900), Jean Baptiste Perrin (1870), and François Arago (1786). After him are Alfred Kastler (1902), Hans Bethe (1906), Benoît Paul Émile Clapeyron (1799), Louis Néel (1904), Jean-Baptiste Biot (1774), and Hippolyte Fizeau (1819).

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