Science behind iPod wins Nobel Physics prize

By Tom | October 8, 2007

Two scientists who put the ‘nano’ in iPod Nano have been awarded a 2007 Nobel Prize.

Albert Fert of France and Peter Gruenberg of Germany discovered the giant magnetoresistive effect, or spintronics, simultaneously and independently in 1988.

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