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Title: Nobel prize for Giant Magnetoresistance
Post by: Cobra951 on Tuesday, October 09, 2007, 11:15:39 PM

Giant Magnetoresistance (http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/10/071009083859.htm) is what makes modern hard drives possible.  I had no idea until I heard this story on NPR earlier today.  There was literally a quantum leap in technology to make them possible, starting around 1997.

Edit: This (http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/2007/speedread.html) is only about 3 clicks away from my first link.  It's a better description, and official to boot.

Title: Re: Nobel prize for Giant Magnetoresistance
Post by: Quemaqua on Tuesday, October 09, 2007, 11:35:54 PM

I'm way too tired to process that on any real level, but it's interesting.  I had no idea either.

Title: Re: Nobel prize for Giant Magnetoresistance
Post by: TheOtherBelmont on Wednesday, October 10, 2007, 03:20:32 AM

I read about this in Wired today, cool stuff and they deserve it, it made a pretty huge leap in electronic storage.