Albert Fert

Education

• 1957-1962 - Ecole Normale Supérieure (Paris): Maîtrise de Mathématiques, Maîtrise de Physique.
• 1970 – Université Paris-Sud : Doctorat es Sciences Physiques, Title: " Transport properties of nickel and iron ", Supervisor : I. A. Campbell, Preparation at Laboratoire de Physique des Solides (Orsay).

Main Positions

• 1962-1964 : Assistant at Université de Grenoble
• 1964-1976 : Maitre Assistant at Université Paris-Sud (Orsay)
• 1976 to now: Professor of Physics at Université Paris-Sud.

Research

• 1970-1995: Leader of a research group at Laboratoire de Physique des Solides (Université Paris-Sud, Orsay).
• 1995 to now: Scientific Director at Unité Mixte de Physique CNRS-Thales (Orsay).

• Experimental (and theoretical) research in condensed matter physics (metals, magnetism, magnetic nanostructures, spin electronics). Discovery of Giant Magnetoresistance in 1988. Many contributions to the development of spin electronics.
• Publications : about 270 (one of them, with almost 4000 citations, is in the " Top Ten " of the ten most cited Physical Review. Letters articles since the creation of PRL in1953).

Prizes

• 1994: International Prize for New Materials awarded by American Physical Society
• 1994: Magnetism Award awarded by International Union for Pure and Applied Physics
• 1994: Grand Prix de Physique Jean Ricard awarded by Société française de Physique
• 1997: Hewlett-Packard Europhysics Prize awarded by European Physical Society
• 2003: Médaille d'or du CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique)
• 2007 : Japan Prize
• 2007 : Wolf Prize
• 2007 : Nobel Prize in Physics