Physics
Press release
Press release
English 9 October 2007 has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physics for 2007 jointly to Albert Fert Unité Mixte de Physique CNRS/THALES, Université Paris-Sud, Orsay, France, and Peter Grünberg Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany, “for the discovery of Giant Magnetoresistance”. Nanotechnology gives sensitive read-out heads for compact hard disks This year’s physics prize is awarded…
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The Nobel Prize in Physics 2007 The electrons in the illustration are represented by small magnets as it is their magnetic qualities that give rise to giant magnetoresistance. The magnetic moment in the electrons is the result of their internal “rotation”, spin, that can point upwards or downwards. Here the electric current is divided into…
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The Nobel Prize in Physics 1991
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded this year’s Nobel Prize in Physics to Pierre-Gilles de Gennes Collège de France, Paris for discovering that methods developed for studying order phenomena in simple systems can be generalized to more complex forms of matter, in particular to liquid crystals and polymers.…
moreAnthony J. Leggett – Biographical
Biographical
I was born in Camberwell, South London, on the 26th of March, 1938. I am told I only made it into the world on the date in question by seven minutes, thereby exhibiting at this early stage the tendency to procrastination which I fear has characterized much of my subsequent career. Not a great deal…
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