2007 Nobel Prize in physics goes to Fert and Grünberg for Giant Magnetoresistance
Fert is at the University of Paris (sud) and Grünberg is at the Jülich research center.
This is a classic Nobel prize, since it is for relatively recent research that lead to immediate major practical application - modern hard disk drives, from iPods to your desktop - use GMR for coding the high information density expected nowadays
Here is the press release: good one - even if I spectacularly failed to predict it - I didn't think the Academy would award it so soon after discovery.
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The Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings of 2008 are over, but we are archiving the video interviews that the ScienceBlogs.de team conducted in Lindau with a variety of laureates. Interviewed here is Nobelist Peter Grünberg, winner of the 2007 Prize in Physics.
The Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings of 2008 are over, but we are archiving the video interviews that the ScienceBlogs.de team conducted in Lindau with a variety of laureates. Interviewed here is Nobelist Theodor Hänsch, winner of the 2005 Prize in Physics.
It's the second daily dispatch from the 58th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings by Beatrice Lugger, Managing Editor of ScienceBlogs.de.
How about awarding the Nobel in Physics to the guys who put the first satellite in orbit 50 years ago? Though I think there were too many people involved and it'd be hard to pick just three...(?)
You have to be alive to get the Nobel.
Korolev died in '66
Obviously - I knew that Korolyev died a long time ago, but he wasn't the only one; there were also V. Chelomei and V. Glushko; alas, they are long gone as well (1984 and 1989 respectively).
Oh well.
Russian Space Legend Would Be 100
MOSCOW, Jan. 11, 2007
By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Associated Press Writer
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/01/11/ap/tech/mainD8MJ9IP00.shtml
(AP) His work and even his name were once top Soviet secrets. It wasn't until after his death that Sergei Korolyov became known to the world as the man who led the team that put the world's first satellite into orbit and sent the first human into space. Russia marks the 100th anniversary Friday of the birth of Korolyov, who suffered years of torture, starvation and hard labor in Josef Stalin's gulag before becoming chief of the Soviet rocket program....
... Rossiiyskaya Gazeta said Khrushchev twice rejected an offer from the Nobel Prize Committee to nominate the man who designed Sputnik and the spacecraft that carried the world's first human, Yuri Gagarin, into space on April 12, 1961. "We can't name one single person. It's the entire people building the new technology," Khrushchev was quoted as saying....