Alain Aspect's Curriculum Vitae - CNRS

Médaille d’or 2005 du CNRSAlain Aspect, physicienAlain Aspect’s Curriculum VitaeBorn in 1947 in Agen, in the French department of Lot et Garonne.Education and career• Student at the Ecole normale supérieure in Cachan and at the Université d’Orsayfrom 1965 to 1969.• ‘Agrégation’ in physics (1969).• Assistant lecturer at Orsay from 1969 to 1971.• Master’s thesis, Orsay (1971).• Teacher within the framework of voluntary service overseas at the Ecole NormaleSupérieure in Yaoundé (Cameroon) from 1971 to 1974.• Lecturer at the ENS in Cachan from 1974 to 1985.• PhD dissertation, Orsay, 1983.• Assistant laboratory director at the Collège de France (Chair of atomic and molecularphysics), from 1985 to 1992.• Senior researcher at CNRS, at the Laboratoire Charles Fabry at the Institut d’Optique,since 1992.• Senior lecturer and then professor at the Ecole Polytechnique (1985, 1994).Awards• Prix Servan of the French Academy of Sciences (1983).• Commonwealth Award for Science and Invention, Boston, 1985.• Award of the International Commission for Optics, 1987.• Holweck Prize (Société française de physique and Institute of Physics), 1991.• Max Born Award of the Optical Society of America, 1999.• Humboldt-Gay Lussac Prize of the Alexander Von Humboldt foundation, 1999.Honors• Loebb lecturer, Harvard (1992).• Corresponding member of the French Academy of Sciences, 1994.• Fellow of the Optical Society of America (1999).• Carnegie centennial professor, University of Strathclyde (Glasgow, 2000).• Member of the French Academy of Technologies (2002).• Member of the French Academy of Sciences (2002).• Fellow of the European Optical Society (2004).• Officier des palmes académiques (decoration for services to education).• Chevalier of the Legion of Honor.15

PublicationsBooks, or book chapters• G. Grynberg, A. Aspect, C. Fabre, « Introduction aux lasers et à l’optiquequantique », Ellipses 1997.• F. Bardou, J.-P. Bouchaud, A. Aspect and C. Cohen-Tannoudji, « Lévy Statistics andLaser Cooling: How Rare Events Bring Atoms to Rest », Cambridge University Press(2002).• A. Aspect, author of the chapter “Bell’s theorem: the naïve view of anexperimentalist”, in “Quantum [un]speakables, from Bell to Quantum information”,R.A. Bertlmann and A. Zeilinger edit. (Springer 2002). Available on the HAL server ofCNRS (http://hal.ccsd.cnrs.fr/ccsd-00001079)• A. Aspect, “John Bell and the second quantum revolution”: introduction to the secondedition of “Speakable and Unspeakable in Quantum Mechanics”, J.S. Bell,Cambridge University Press (2004).• A. Aspect, co-author of “Demain la Physique”, (ed. O. Jacob 2004), and in particularof the chapter: « Une nouvelle révolution quantique ».• A. Aspect and P. Grangier, « De l’article d’Einstein Podolsky et Rosen à l’informationquantique » in « Einstein aujourd’hui », CNRS EDITIONS-EDP Sciences (2005).Articles• Author of over 100 articles in international journals.16