Nobel Prize in Physics

By Tom | October 9, 2007

Albert Fert, of the Université Paris-Sud in Orsay, France, and Peter Grünberg, of the Institute of Solid State Research at the Jülich Research Center in Germany, will share the $1.5 million of the Nobel Prize in Physics awarded by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.Both worked  independently in 1988 discovered an effect known as giant magnetoresistance, in which tiny changes in a magnetic field can produce huge changes in electrical resistance.According to The Associated Press,Börje Johansson, a member of the Royal Swedish Academy, said “The MP3 and iPod industry would not have existed without this discovery”

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