Albert Fert#
| Membership Number: | 2722 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | PHYSICS & ENGINEERING SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2009 |
| Main Country of Residence: | FRANCE |
Present and Previous Positions
- Professor Emeritus 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
- 1976 Professor of Physics at Université Paris-Sud (Orsay, France)
- 1965 - 1976 Maître Assistant at Université Paris-Sud (Orsay, France)
- 1964 - 1965 Military service
- 1962 - 1964 Assistant at Université de Grenoble
Fields of Scholarship
- Discovery of the Giant Magnetoresistance
- Experimental and theoretical research in condensed matter physics (metals, magnetism, magnetic nanostructures, spin electronics)
- Development of spintronics
Honours and Awards
- 1994 American Physical Society's International Prize for New Materials
- 1994 Grand prix de physique Jean Ricard of the French Physical Society
- 1994 International Union of Pure and Applied Physics Magnetism Award
- 1997 Hewlett-Packard Europhysics Prize
- 2003 Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique Gold Medal
- 2006 Gutenberg Lecture Award
- 2006 Wolf Prize in Physics
- 2007 Japan Prize
- 2004 Elected to the French Academy of Sciences
- 2006 Honorary doctorate from the Department of Physics of the University of Kaiserslautern
- 2007 Nobel Prize in Physics (jointly with Peter Grünberg) "for the discovery of Giant Magnetoresistance"
- 2014 Gay-Lussac Humboldt Award
