The 2007 Nobel Prize in physics was awarded Tuesday to two European scientists who discovered a tiny magnetic effect that has revolutionized the storage of computerized information. France’s Albert ...

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The Japan Prize has been awarded this year to Albert Fert, Professor of the Université Paris-Sud 11, Scientific director at the Unité Mixte de Physique CNRS/THales winner of the cnrs Golden Medal in ...

France's Albert Fert and Germany's Peter Gruenberg have won the 2007 Nobel Prize for Physics for discoveries allowing the miniaturisation of hard disks in electronic devices from laptops to iPods. The ...

The 2007 Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded jointly to Albert Fert of the Université Paris-Sud in France and Peter Grünberg of the Forschungszentrum Jülich in Germany "for the discovery of giant ...

The 2007 Nobel Prize in physics will be shared by two Europeans who discovered the physics that allows computer hard drives to compress large amounts of data. The prize was awarded to Albert Fert of ...

Two physicists, a German and a French researcher, who independently discovered an effect that makes today's tiny hard drives possible, were awarded the 2007 Nobel Prize in physics today. In 1988, ...

The Wolf Foundation Prize in Physics for 2006/7 has been awarded jointly to Albert Fert of the University of Paris and Peter Gruenberg of the Juelich Research Center in Germany. The prize was given ...

Germany’s Peter Gruenberg and France’s Albert Fert independently discovered the phenomenon, called “giant magnetoresistance,” in 1987. Both scientists found that by sandwiching together thin layers of ...