Wednesday, October 10, 2007

Nobel Prize for Physics 2007 : Albert Fert, Peter Grunberg

Now you know whom to thank for that iPhone .

This year’s Nobel Prize for Physics went to Albert Fert (France) and Peter Grünberg (Germany), who share the prize fifty:fifty for their discovery of giant magnetoresistance in which a very weak magnetic change gived rise to a major difference in electrical resistance of a system.

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You can also read more details on the Nobel site here

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