Languedoc-Roussillon Scientist Awarded Nobel Prize

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Albert Fert, a native of the Aude who spent his childhood in the village of Montclar which lies between Carcassonne and Limoux in the Languedoc-Roussillon, has been awarded the 2007 Nobel prize for Physics along with his German colleague Peter Grunberg. Albert Fert, a native of the Aude who spent his childhood in the village of Montclar which lies between Carcassonne and Limoux in the Languedoc-Roussillon, has been awarded the 2007 Nobel prize for Physics along with his German colleague Peter Grunberg. The two researchers have been recognised for for discovering the phenomenon that enables computers and digital music players store reams of data on ever-shrinking hard disks: the Giant Magnetoresistance (GMR). The Nobel Prize committee explained that the discovery of GMR in 1988 is considered as one of the first applications of nanotechnology - the system of using materials on the nanometre scale (i.e. a billionth of a metre) - which has lead to the development of the more efficient, less cumbersome electronic equipment that has revolutionised our daily lives.

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