Alain Aspect, Nobel Prize in Physics and member of the Académie des Sciences, joins the Académie française

The French Academy of sciences welcomes the election of one of its members to the French Academy. Physicist Alain Aspect, director of research emeritus at the CNRS Charles Fabry Laboratory(CNRS/ Institut d'optique Graduate School), winner of the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics for his experimental work on quantum entanglement, contributing to today's quantum technological revolution, and a member of the Académie des Sciences since 2001, joins the thirty-three "Immortals" in the chair of Mr. René de Obaldia, French playwright, novelist and poet (F22).

This is further recognition for the man whose work has contributed to the emergence of quantum technologies, in particular quantum cryptography and quantum computers. Alain Aspect is already an eminent figure in the scientific world, acclaimed in France and internationally.

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