Alain Aspect
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Alain Aspect is a French physicist renowned for his groundbreaking experiments on quantum entanglement that confirmed key predictions of quantum mechanics and contributed to his sharing the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Alain Aspect canonical | 10 |
| Alain Aspect (later Nobel Prize in Physics 2022, partly for this work) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T515601 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Alain Aspect Context triple: [École Polytechnique, hasAlumnus, Alain Aspect]
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A.
Simon van der Meer
Simon van der Meer was a Dutch physicist and Nobel laureate whose innovations in particle accelerator technology were crucial to major discoveries in high-energy physics.
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B.
Carlo Rubbia
Carlo Rubbia is an Italian physicist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pivotal role in the experimental discovery of the W and Z bosons at CERN.
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C.
Carl E. Wieman
Carl E. Wieman is an American physicist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering work in Bose–Einstein condensation and contributions to physics education.
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D.
Jerome Friedman
Jerome Friedman is an American physicist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering experimental work that confirmed the existence of quarks as fundamental constituents of matter.
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E.
Daniel Kleppner
Daniel Kleppner is an American physicist renowned for his pioneering work in atomic physics and contributions to the development of Bose–Einstein condensation.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Alain Aspect Target entity description: Alain Aspect is a French physicist renowned for his groundbreaking experiments on quantum entanglement that confirmed key predictions of quantum mechanics and contributed to his sharing the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics.
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A.
Simon van der Meer
Simon van der Meer was a Dutch physicist and Nobel laureate whose innovations in particle accelerator technology were crucial to major discoveries in high-energy physics.
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B.
Carlo Rubbia
Carlo Rubbia is an Italian physicist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pivotal role in the experimental discovery of the W and Z bosons at CERN.
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C.
Carl E. Wieman
Carl E. Wieman is an American physicist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering work in Bose–Einstein condensation and contributions to physics education.
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D.
Jerome Friedman
Jerome Friedman is an American physicist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering experimental work that confirmed the existence of quarks as fundamental constituents of matter.
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E.
Daniel Kleppner
Daniel Kleppner is an American physicist renowned for his pioneering work in atomic physics and contributions to the development of Bose–Einstein condensation.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
French physicist
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human ⓘ physicist ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
2022 Nobel Prize in Physics
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Albert Einstein Medal ⓘ CNRS Gold Medal ⓘ Max Born Award ⓘ Nobel Prize in Physics ⓘ Quantum Electronics Prize of the European Physical Society ⓘ Wolf Prize in Physics ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | France ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1947-06-15 ⓘ |
| doctoralAdvisor | Claude Cohen-Tannoudji ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Université d'Orsay
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linked to:
Université Paris-Sud
École Normale Supérieure de Cachan ⓘ |
| employer |
CNRS
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linked to:
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Université Paris-Sud ⓘ École Polytechnique ⓘ |
| familyName | Aspect ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
foundations of quantum mechanics
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physics ⓘ quantum optics ⓘ quantum physics ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | Alain ⓘ |
| knownFor |
closing locality loophole in Bell tests
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contributions to quantum information science ⓘ experiments on quantum entanglement ⓘ tests of Bell inequalities ⓘ |
| languageSpoken |
English
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French ⓘ |
| memberOf |
French Academy of Sciences
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linked to:
Académie des Sciences
French Academy of Technologies ⓘ
linked to:
French Academy of Engineering
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| name | Alain Aspect ⓘ |
| nationality | French ⓘ |
| NobelPrizeCategory | Physics ⓘ |
| NobelPrizeMotivation | experiments with entangled photons, establishing the violation of Bell inequalities and pioneering quantum information science ⓘ |
| NobelPrizeYear | 2022 ⓘ |
| notableExperiment | Aspect experiment on Bell inequality tests (1982) ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Agen, France ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
professor at École Polytechnique
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research director at CNRS ⓘ |
| researchInterest |
nonlocality
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quantum entanglement ⓘ quantum information ⓘ |
| sharedAwardWith |
Anton Zeilinger
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John F. Clauser ⓘ |
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Subject: Alain Aspect Description of subject: Alain Aspect is a French physicist renowned for his groundbreaking experiments on quantum entanglement that confirmed key predictions of quantum mechanics and contributed to his sharing the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Aspect experiment on Bell inequality tests (1982)
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Alain Aspect (later Nobel Prize in Physics 2022, partly for this work)
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linked to: Alain Aspect