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Nobel Prize laureate in physics for 2007, German physicians, Professor Peter Andreas Grünberg – one of the discoverers of giant magnetoresistance effect – gave a lecture and was the guest of the 13th International Conference Physics of Magnetism 2011, organized by the Faculty of Physics of the Adam Mickiewicz University and Institute of Molecular Physics of the Polish Academy of Sciences, in the Collegium Physicum UAM at Morasko.
The discovery of giant magnetoresistance enabled miniaturization of hard disk drives. Prof. P.A. Grünberg received a Nobel Prize for this discovery together with Albert Fert (France). This phenomenon is also used in hard disk read heads and magnetic MRAM memories. It was applied for the first time in a commercial device by IBM in 1997.
Professor Peter Andreas Grünberg (born on 18 May 1939 in Plzeň) from 1972 to 2004 led a research group dealing with magnetism of thin layers in Research Center in Jülich (Germany).
Photo – Prof. Peter Andreas Grünberg (source: Wikipedia) |
Nobel Prize laureate in physics for 2007, German physicians, Professor Peter Andreas Grünberg – one of the discoverers of giant magnetoresistance effect – gave a lecture and was the guest of the 13th International Conference Physics of Magnetism 2011, organized by the Faculty of Physics of the Adam Mickiewicz University and Institute of Molecular Physics of the Polish Academy of Sciences, in the Collegium Physicum UAM at Morasko.
