Nobel Prize for Physics by Claudia Sonea

The Nobel Prize is one of the oldes and with the most importance, once you recive one is like the entire work is aknowledged and posted in the world's history. It is the ultimate stage in anyone's carrier. This year Nobel Prize for Physics was won by a Frenchman and a German. Their discovery revolutionized electronic industry and is called magnetoresistance with the effect of enabling things at a miniature scale. The winners are Fert a 69 years old scientific director of the Mixed Unit for Physics at CNRS/Thales in Orsay, France, and Gruenberg is a professor at the Institute of Solid State Research in Juelich, Germany. In his statement to the press Gruenberg said he was not too surprised by the Nobel because he won a lot of prizes and was just a matter of time until he would eventually win it, underlining it is the ultimate prize, while Fert is simply amazed by the extent of their discovery. The process of the magnetoresistance consists in a sensitive electromagnetic heading over a metal disk, reading bits of data by registering the magnetic bearing of individual particles. They independently discovered was that extremely thin layers of alternating metals could detect remarkably weak changes in magnetism â€" and translate them into "giant" changes in electrical resistance. But only in 1997 IBM Corp translated their raw science into the manufacturing process already used to produce disk drives. According to John Best, chief technologist for Hitachi Ltd.'s data-storage unit GMR will also help in the nanotechnology. But the GMR has a strong competition in solid-state flash memory. Still its inventors can now delight of a 1.5 million prize and eternal glory. That proves it really pays to be a hard-working person.

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by Claudia Sonea for PocketNews (http://pocketnews.tv)

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