Prize announcement

Announcement of the 2007 Nobel Prize in Physics to Albert Fert and Peter Grünberg, presented by Professor Gunnar Öquist, Secretary General of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, on 9 October 2007.


Interview

Following the announcement, Professor Ingemar Lundström told senior editor Simon Frantz how giant magnetoresistance has changed the way our computers look and function.

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