Albert Fert
French physicist, Nobel laureate in physics
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French physicist who cracked giant magnetoresistance and helped revolutionize hard disk storage. Split the 2007 Nobel Prize in Physics with Peter Grünberg for work that actually mattered to your laptop.
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Albert Fert is a French physicist and one of the discoverers of giant magnetoresistance which brought about a breakthrough in gigabyte hard disks. Currently, he is an emeritus professor at Paris-Saclay University in Orsay, scientific director of a joint laboratory between the Centre national de la recherche scientifique and Thales Group, and adjunct professor at Michigan State University. He was awarded the 2007 Nobel Prize in Physics together with Peter Grünberg.
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