Nobel Prize in Physics 2007
© The Nobel Foundation. Photo: U. Montan
Albert Fert
Prize share: 1/2
© The Nobel Foundation. Photo: U. Montan
Peter Grünberg
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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