Awards & Winners

Peter Grünberg

Date of Birth 18-May-1939
Place of Birth Pilsen
(Plzeň Region, Austria-Hungary, Bohemia, Czech Republic, Plzeň-City District)
Nationality Germany
Also know as Peter Grunberg
Profession Physicist, Professor
Peter Andreas Grünberg is 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.

Awards by Peter Grünberg

Check all the awards nominated and won by Peter Grünberg.

2007


Nobel Prize in Physics
(for the discovery of Giant Magnetoresistance)

2006


Universities and research institutions
Honored for : Giant magnetoresistance
Wolf Prize in Physics
(For their independent discovery of the giant magnetoresistance phenomenon (GMR), thereby launching a new field of research and applications known as spintronics, which utilizes the spin of the electron to store and transport information.)