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Albert Fert

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Albert Fert

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French physicist, Nobel laureate in physics

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Albert Fert is a French physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics for his groundbreaking work in the field of spintronics, which involves using the spin of electrons in addition to their charge to store and process information. His discoveries have been fundamental to the development of modern data storage technology and have opened new possibilities for more efficient computing devices.

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  • Acto de Investidura del Grado de Doctor Honoris Causa de Albert Fert

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5 total works indexed

  1. Fiji: an open-source platform for biological-image analysis

    · 2012 · cited 66,746x

  2. G*Power 3: A flexible statistical power analysis program for the social, behavioral, and biomedical sciences

    · 2007 · cited 54,633x

  3. Self-efficacy: Toward a unifying theory of behavioral change.

    · 1977 · cited 50,552x

  4. Statistical power analyses using G*Power 3.1: Tests for correlation and regression analyses

    · 2009 · cited 31,365x

  5. Emergence of Scaling in Random Networks

    · 1999 · cited 28,079x

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Nobel Prize

  • The Nobel Prize in Physics2007

    “for the discovery of Giant Magnetoresistance”

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Notice biographique d�Albert Fert, membre de l�Acad�mie des sciences

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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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