Fert, Albert

Fert, Albert

▪ French scientist
born March 7, 1938, Carcassonne, France

      French scientist who, with Peter Grünberg (Grünberg, Peter), received the 2007 Nobel Prize for Physics for his independent codiscovery of giant magnetoresistance.

      Fert received master's degrees in mathematics and physics from the École Normale Supérieure in Paris in 1962. He earned a doctorate in physical science from the Université Paris-Sud in 1970 and was made a professor there in 1976. He served as research director for the university's condensed-matter physics laboratory (1970–95) before moving to Unité Mixte de Physique—a laboratory jointly operated by the Université Paris-Sud and the technology firm Thales.

      The principle of magnetoresistance was discovered by Lord Kelvin (Kelvin, William Thomson, Baron) in 1857 when he observed that a conductor's electrical resistance could be altered by exposing it to an external magnetic field. Fert found that he could drastically increase the resistance within a system by alternating nanometre-thick layers of magnetic and nonmagnetic materials. While this technique was initially too expensive for commercial application, it became an industry-standard manufacturing process for magnetic storage devices such as computer hard drives and portable media players.

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