| Date of Birth | 07-March-1938 | |
| Place of Birth |
Carcassonne (Aude, Languedoc-Roussillon) |
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| Nationality | France | |
| Profession | Physicist, Professor | |
| 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 Université Paris-Sud in Orsay and scientific director of a joint laboratory between the Centre national de la recherche scientifique and Thales Group. Also, he is an Adjunct professor of physics at Michigan State University. He was awarded the 2007 Nobel Prize in Physics together with Peter Grünberg. | ||
Awards by Albert Fert |
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