The Nobel Prize in Physics 2007
Awarded on: 2007-10-09
"for the discovery of Giant Magnetoresistance"
Affiliations:
- Forschungszentrum Jülich – Jülich, Germany
Peter Grünberg
Born: 1939-05-18 in Plzen, Czechoslovakia (now Czech Republic)
Gender: male
Field: German physicist (1939–2018)
Biography
Peter Andreas Grünberg was a German physicist, and Nobel Prize in Physics laureate for his discovery with Albert Fert of giant magnetoresistance which brought about a breakthrough in gigabyte hard disk drives.