This Year Nobel Prize In Physics
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2007 "for the discovery of Giant Magnetoresistance" Photo: B. Fert, Invisuphoto Photo: © Forschungszentrum Jülich Albert Fert Peter Grünberg 1/2 of the prize 1/2 of the prize France Germany Université Paris-Sud; Unité Mixte de Physique CNRS/THALES Orsay, France Forschungszentrum Jülich Jülich, Germany b. 1938 b. 1939 Nano Technology gives sensitive read-out heads for compact hard disks This year's physics prize is awarded for the technology that is used to read data on hard disks. It is thanks to this technology that it has been possible to miniaturize hard disks so radically in recent years. Sensitive read-out heads are needed to be able to read data from the compact hard disks used in laptops and some music players, for instance. In 1988 the Frenchman Albert Fert and the German Peter Grü