… both awards point to the fundamental importance of surfaces and interfaces, and moreover both topics depend on a detailed understanding of the electronic structures of materials.
Albert Fert and Peter Gruenberg are awarded the Physics Nobel 2007
for the discovery of giant magnetoresistance.
The wiki page has a nice write-up on giant magnetoresistance.
Update: Doug at Nanoscale views has a short write-up on GMR.
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