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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, university teacher, and researcher. Born in Carcassonne in 1938, he holds French citizenship and resides in Paris. He was educated at the École Normale Supérieure and has served as an employer at the University of Paris-Sud. Fert is a member of the French Academy of Sciences and the Academia Europaea.

His work in physics has been recognized with several major honors, including the Nobel Prize in Physics, the Wolf Prize in Physics, the CNRS Gold medal, and the Commander of the Legion of Honour. He has two children and speaks French.

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

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Recent publications · Crossref

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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Described at

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

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
human
Given name
François
Gender
male
Citizenship
France
Place of birth
Carcassonne
Occupation
researcher
Educated at
École Normale Supérieure
Languages spoken
French
Award
Clarivate Citation Laureates
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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Albert Fert
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.

Biography

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