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Albert Fert
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Albert Fert is a French physicist, university teacher, and researcher born in Carcassonne in 1938. He is educated at the École Normale Supérieure and has been employed by the University of Paris-Sud. Fert resides in Paris and speaks French. He is a member of the French Academy of Sciences and Academia Europaea.
His notable awards include the Nobel Prize in Physics, the Wolf Prize in Physics, the CNRS Gold medal, and the Commander of the Legion of Honour. Fert is recognized in the Nobel Laureates collection and the Nobel Physics collection. He has two children and holds an Erdős number of 8.
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- Acto de Investidura del Grado de Doctor Honoris Causa de Albert Fert
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Nobel Prize
- The Nobel Prize in Physics2007
“for the discovery of Giant Magnetoresistance”
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- human
- Given name
- François
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- France
- Place of birth
- Carcassonne
- Occupation
- researcher
- Educated at
- École Normale Supérieure
- Languages spoken
- French
- Field of work
- physics
- Image
- Albert fert 15 janvier 2009 Spintronique Paris Descartes.JPG
- Number of children
- 2
- Residence
- Paris
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- Albert Fert
- date of birth
- 1938-03-07
- Erdős number
- 8
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- name in native language
- Albert Fert
- described at URL
- www.academie-sciences.fr/pdf/membre/FertA_bio0208.pdf
- interested in
- physics
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Encyclopedic overview
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.
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