Thank A Physicist

Here's another tidbit from my news feed reader...

It's not very often that I pay much attention to Nobel Prizes, but this year, the Nobel Prize in Physics is going to 2 very deserving scientists.

Mercifully, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has seen fit to award this year's Nobel Prize for physics to a couple of guys who did something we can all appreciate: making it technologically feasible to cram a wall full of CDs onto a slick white gadget the size of a deck of cards and thereby revolutionizing the art of gazing blankly into somebody's armpit during the morning subway crush (at least in New York City).

If you like your hard drive, your Wii,  your iPod or Zen, your DVR... you can thank these two men for creating the break thru technology that our world has been built on.

Congratulations go to Albert Fert of Universite Paris-Sud in Orsay, France, and Peter Gruenberg of Germany's Forschungszentrum Juelich. 

Posted by: Teresa in Science at 07:30 PM | Comments (2) | Add Comment
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