Historical place archive

Orsay in History

Browse historical events and people recorded at Orsay in France. The records below are rendered directly from the World History Database into this page's initial HTML.

3 records3 event labels2 people1982–1988

Historical events in Orsay

1982

1982
Bell Inequality Experiment
Alain Aspect · Physics

Performs experiments testing Bell inequalities with entangled photons.

1982
Quantum Entanglement Test
Alain Aspect · Physics

Finds correlations incompatible with local hidden-variable theories.

1988

1988
Giant Magnetoresistance Electron Spin Transport
Albert Fert · Physics

Co-discovers giant magnetoresistance, showing that electrical resistance can depend strongly on electron spin in magnetic multilayers.

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