Alain Aspect, CNRS research director at the Charles Fabry Laboratory, has been elected to the Académie Française.

Alain Aspect, CNRS research director at the Charles Fabry Laboratory (CNRS/Institut d'optique Graduate School), has been elected to the Académie Française. Founded in 1635 by Richelieu, the Academy has 40 members, whose mission since its inception has been to work to “establish clear rules for our language and make it pure, eloquent, and capable of addressing the arts and sciences.”

Alain Aspect, a member of the French Academy of Sciences since 2001, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2022, jointly with John Clauser and Anton Zeilinger, for his work on quantum processes, which has contributed to the emergence of quantum technologies, especially quantum cryptography and quantum computers.