Albert Pert from France and Peter Greenberg from Germany are the winners of this year's prize, when their discovery actually served to accelerate the miniaturization of computers
Albert Pert from France and Peter Greenberg from Germany are the winners of the 2007 Nobel Prize in Physics for the discovery of the change in the electrical resistance of a material subject to the influence of a magnetic field (electromagnetism) Giant Magnetoresistance. Fert is a professor at the University of Paris-Sud and Greenberg is from the Yulich Research Center in Germany.
The two received the award for their discovery, which is used to read data from hard disks and enabled the miniaturization of hard disks in recent years. The Nobel Prize is usually given for discoveries that have had an impact on everyday life and have become basic information in the fields in which the prize is given.
Tomorrow (Wednesday) the winner or winners of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry will be announced and thus the list of candidates for the scientific prizes will be completed, the announcement of the Nobel Prize for Literature is expected on Thursday, and next week - the Nobel Prizes for Economics and Peace.
