Awards & Winners

Albert Fert

Date of Birth 07-March-1938
Place of Birth Carcassonne
(Aude, Languedoc-Roussillon)
Nationality France
Profession Physicist, Professor
Albert Fert 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 Université Paris-Sud in Orsay and scientific director of a joint laboratory between the Centre national de la recherche scientifique and Thales Group. Also, he is an Adjunct professor of physics at Michigan State University. He was awarded the 2007 Nobel Prize in Physics together with Peter Grünberg.

Awards by Albert Fert

Check all the awards nominated and won by Albert Fert.

2007


Nobel Prize in Physics
(for the discovery of Giant Magnetoresistance)

2006


Wolf Prize in Physics
(For their independent discovery of the giant magnetoresistance phenomenon (GMR), thereby launching a new field of research and applications known as spintronics, which utilizes the spin of the electron to store and transport information.)