Background
Fert, Albert was born on March 7, 1938 in Carcassonne, France. Son of Charles and Irmine (Signoles) Fert.
physicist university professor
Fert, Albert was born on March 7, 1938 in Carcassonne, France. Son of Charles and Irmine (Signoles) Fert.
Master of Science in Mathematics and Physics, Ecole Normale Superieure (École Normale Supérieure), Paris, 1959. Doctor of Philosophy, University Paris-Sud, 1970. Doctor of Philosophy (honorary), University Dublin, 2003.
Currently, he is an emeritus professor at Université Paris-Sud in Orsay and 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. 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.
Actually he is part of the professorate of the National Autonomous University of Mexico Fert graduated in 1962 from the École Normale Supérieure in Paris.
He received his Doctor of Philosophy (doctorat de troisième cycle) in 1963 and his Doctor of Science. (doctorat des sciences), both from the Orsay Faculty of Sciences of the University of Paris. In 1988 Fert discovered the Giant magnetoresistance effect (GMR) in multilayers of iron and chromium.
Peter Grünberg from the Jülich Research Centre simultaneously and independently discovered GMR. These two discoveries are recognized as the birth of spintronics. Since 1988, Albert Fert has made contributions to the field of spintronics.
American Physical Society"s International Prize for New Materials (1994).
French Academy of Sciences. French Academy of Technologies]
He is a member of the Fondation Ecologie d"Avenir since 2011.
Married Marie-Josee Ortega Fert, July20, 1967. Children: Ariane, Bruno.