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Giant-magnetoresistance pioneers win Wolf prize The Wolf Foundation Prize in Physics for 2006/7 has been awarded jointly to Albert Fert of the University of Paris and Peter Gruenberg of the Juelich Research Center in Germany. The prize was given for their "independent discovery of the giant magnetoresistance (GMR) phenomenon, thereby launching a new field of research and applications known as spintronics, which utilizes the spin of the electron to store and transport information".
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