…and the Nobel prize in physics for the year 2007 goes to Albert Fert and Peter Grünberg; both discovered “Giant Magnetoresistance,” independently and almost at the same time — Grünberg was a bit faster with filing the patent.
I don’t really have the background to explain this effect in detail, but as much as I have understood is the importance of it for our daily lives: high-density hard-drives would not be possible without this effect. And thus I would like to thank both Fert and Grünberg for their discovery and congratulate them on their well earned Nobel prize.
Further scientific background can be found at the web pages of the Nobel foundation.
- The version for “the public”
- and that for “the real uber-physicists”
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