Died 2018-04-07.
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Peter Grünberg
Peter Andreas Grünberg was a German physicist, and Nobel Prize in Physics laureate for his discovery with Albert Fert of giant magnetoresistance which brought about a breakthrough in gigabyte hard disk drives.
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Born 18 May 1939 · Died 7 April 2018 · Q57120
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2018· 1 entry
2016· 1 entry
Awarded Friendship Award (2016).
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2011· 1 entry
Awarded honorary member presented by Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft (2011).
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2009· 2 entries
Awarded honorary member of the Physics Association (Frankfurt am Main, Germany) (2009).
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Awarded Hall of Fame of German Research (2009).
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2008· 5 entries
Awarded Knight Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (2008).
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Awarded honorary citizenship presented by Jülich (2008).
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Awarded The seal of the city of Pilsen (2008).
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Awarded honorary doctor of the Saarland University (2008).
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Awarded Order of Merit of North Rhine-Westphalia (2008).
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2007· 5 entries
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics — for the discovery of Giant Magnetoresistance.
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Awarded Japan Prize (2007).
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Won Stern–Gerlach Medal (2007).
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Awarded Nobel Prize in Physics (2007).
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Grünberg was awarded Honorary Doctorate from the RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany, in 2008 Honorary Doctorate from the Saarland University, and from Gebze Institute of Technology, and in 2009 from the University o
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2006· 3 entries
Awarded Clarivate Citation Laureates (2006).
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Awarded Wolf Prize in Physics (2006).
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Awarded European Inventor Award (2006).
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2003· 1 entry
Won Ritter-von-Gerstner Medal (2003).
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2002· 1 entry
Aged 100) had to work in agriculture and stayed with her parents in the Petermann house in Untersekerschan (Dolní Sekyřany), where her children (Peter's sister was born in 1937) were brought later
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1998· 2 entries
Awarded German Future Prize (1998).
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And was named European Inventor of the Year in the category "Universities and research institutions" by the European Patent Office and European Commission in 2006
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1997· 1 entry
Awarded EPS Europhysics Prize (1997).
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1994· 2 entries
Won IUPAP Magnetism Award and Néel Medal (1994).
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Awarded James C. McGroddy Prize for New Materials (1994).
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1986· 1 entry
Discovered the antiparallel exchange coupling between ferromagnetic layers separated by a thin non-ferromagnetic layer, and in 1988 he discovered the giant magnetoresistive effect (GMR)
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1962· 1 entry
From the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt
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1939· 1 entry
Born 1939-05-18.
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