The Nobel Prize in Physics 2007

Albert Fert

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Prize share: 1/2

Peter Grünberg

© The Nobel Foundation. Photo: U. Montan

Prize share: 1/2

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2007 was awarded jointly to Albert Fert and Peter Grünberg "for the discovery of Giant Magnetoresistance"

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