[Treasures from the archives] - The first color photograph - presented by Alain Aspect
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The Académie's archives preserve documents divided into different series: records of its academic sessions since 1667, records of prizes it has awarded since the 18th century, a collection of over 18,000 "sealed envelopes" deposited since 1735, as well as scientists' fonds which have been deposited there in order to be preserved and accessible to researchers.
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🟣 About Alain Aspect
Nobel Prize in Physics 2022, Alain Aspect is Director of Research Emeritus at CNRS, Augustin Fresnel Professor at the Institut d'Optique Graduate School and Professor at École Polytechnique.
Alain Aspect is an experimental physicist whose early work at the Institut d'Optique focused on quantum optics and the foundations of quantum mechanics. After contributing to the development of laser-cooling methods for atoms in Claude Cohen-Tannoudji's group at the ENS Kastler Brossel laboratory, he set up an active research group at the Institut d'Optique in the field of quantum atom optics, and quantum simulators based on ultra-cold atoms.
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