Nobel Prize for iPod inventor
No not Steve Jobs but the scientists who discovered the technology now used in all ipods.
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences on Tuesday honored two scientists whose discovery revolutionized digital data storage, awarding the 2007 Nobel Prize in physics for work that allows millions to sway to music on their iPods and to store a lifetime’s photographs on palm-size devices.
Peter Gruenberg of Germany and Albert Fert of France were recognized for their independent discovery of giant magnetoresistance - an exotic phenomenon whose practical applications became ubiquitous in everyday life in less than two decades.
Among the results: The palm-size external hard drive that can hold a good chunk of your local library. The iPod that allows you to carry a thousand songs in your pocket. The computing revolution that allows your laptop to hold more information than a 19th-century warehouse.
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Pingback by ipod » Nobel Prize for iPod inventor — October 17, 2007 @ 2:30 am
That was a nice article, suprised it wasn’t Steve Jobs though =/
Comment by Gareth Boyd — October 17, 2007 @ 8:59 pm