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Hard-disk breakthrough earns duo Nobel Physics Prize

Thread starter NameOfBeast
Start date Oct 9, 2007

NameOfBeast

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Oct 9, 2007

http://www.mg.co.za/articlePage.aspx?articleid=321475&area=/breaking_news/breaking_news__international_news/

Albert Fert of France and Peter Gruenberg of Germany on Tuesday won the Nobel Prize for Physics for work that led to the miniaturised hard disk, one of the breakthroughs of modern information technology.

Fert (69) and Gruenberg (68) were lauded for discovering a principle called giant magnetoresistance, or GMR.

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