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Nobel Prize awarded to hard-disk pioneers
Congratulations are in order for French scientist Albert Fert and Peter Grunberg of Germany, who have won the 2007 Nobel Prize for physics. Their work in giant magnetoresistance allows information to be written and read from hard disks - a very real application of condensed matter research as it used in computer disks, iPods and a myriad of other modern marvels.
BBC News: Disk technology takes Nobel Prize
UPDATE (12 Oct): Research articles by the winners are now available for free to all who want to read them. Seems like the advantages of open access are being recognized by the APS. Of course all research in PhysMath Central is free to read and re-use in any way you wish.
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