French and German researchers will share the 2007 Nobel Prize in Physics, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced moments ago. The winners, who will split a prize worth about $1.5-million, are Albert Fert, of the University of Paris-Sud, in Orsay, France; and Peter Grünberg, of the Jülich Research Center, in Jülich, Germany. They are being honored for their discovery of giant magnetoresistance, a nanotechnology that makes it possible to read data from the hard drives found in laptop computers and many music players. The prize, to be presented in December, is the second this week. On Monday the prize in medicine was announced. The Chronicle will have a fuller report on the physics winners later. —Andrew Mytelka
October 9, 2007
Nobel Prize in Physics Goes for Nanotech Discovery
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