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Disk technology takes Nobel Prize |
 Oct 10 2007, 04:51 PM
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QUOTE French scientist Albert Fert and Peter Grunberg of Germany have won the 2007 Nobel Prize for physics.
They discovered the phenomenon of "giant magnetoresistance", in which weak magnetic changes give rise to big differences in electrical resistance. The knowledge has allowed industry to develop sensitive reading tools to pull data off hard drives in computers, iPods and other digital devices. It has made it possible to radically miniaturise hard disks in recent years. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7035247.stm -------------------- "Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts." "Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster"    |
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Oct 10 2007, 05:53 PM
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Good for them! While the discovery/advancement doesn't have a life/death effect on our world it surely has added some extra magic to it.
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Oct 10 2007, 11:00 PM
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The German did the work; the Frenchman swilled wine and gobbled cheese.
This post has been edited by MattV: Oct 10 2007, 11:01 PM -------------------- Lib. Free or Die
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Oct 10 2007, 11:42 PM
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QUOTE (Mara @ Oct 10 2007, 03:53 PM)  Good for them! While the discovery/advancement doesn't have a life/death effect on our world it surely has added some extra magic to it. The ramifications of the advancement of this technology has advanced the research in any field utilizing computers, this mean just about anything you can or can't imagine, yes it does effect life and death scenarios. |
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Oct 11 2007, 01:21 PM
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Oops, I stand corrected!
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Oct 15 2007, 10:11 AM
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Nice to see someone get awarded for a technology than can actually be implemented in the near future.
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