The Nobel Prize in Physics 2007
Awarded on: 2007-10-09
"for the discovery of Giant Magnetoresistance"
Affiliations:
- Université Paris-Sud – Orsay, France
- Unité Mixte de Physique CNRS/THALES – Orsay, France
Albert Fert
Born: 1938-03-07 in Carcassonne, France
Gender: male
Field: French physicist (born 1938)
Biography
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.