!!!Albert Fert \\ %%(float:left;margin-left:20px;margin-right:30px;) [{Image src='fert_writing2_photo.jpg' caption='' height='200' alt='Albert Fert'}]%% [{AcadMemberDataPlugin}] \\ \\ \\ \\ \\ __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__ [{AcadMemberFOScholarshipPlugin}] \\ __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 \\ \\ %%columns-900 %%coolborders-140-70 [{Image src='User/paper_content_pencil_48.png' width='48px' class='image_left'}] [Curriculum Vitae |User/Fert_Albert/CV] %% ---- %%coolborders-140-70 [{Image src='User/book_48.png' class='image_left'}] [Publication list|User/Fert_Albert/Publications] %% ---- %%coolborders-140-70 [{Image src='User/camera_noflash_48.png' width='48px' class='image_left'}] [Highlights of my work and anecdotes|User/Fert_Albert/Highlight] %% ---- %%coolborders-140-70 [{Image src='User/database_48.png' class='image_left'}] [Other information|User/Fert_Albert/OtherInformation] %% %% [{ALLOW view All}] [{ALLOW edit afert}] [{ALLOW upload afert}] [{ALLOW comment All}]