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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