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The Nobel Prize in Physics 2007
"for the discovery of Giant Magnetoresistance"
Photo: U. Montan
Photo: U. Montan
Albert Fert
Peter Grünberg
1/2 of the prize
1/2 of the prize
France
Germany
Université Paris-Sud; Unité Mixte de Physique CNRS/THALES
Orsay, France
Forschungszentrum Jülich
Jülich, Germany
b. 1938
b. 1939
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