Albert Fert is a French physicist and one of the discoverers of giant magnetoresistance which brought about a breakthrough in gigabyte hard disks. Currently, he is an emeritus professor at Paris-Saclay University in Orsay, scientific director of a joint laboratory between the Centre national de la recherche scientifique and Thales Group, and adjunct professor at Michigan State University. He was awarded the 2007 Nobel Prize in Physics together with Peter Grünberg. The Nobel Prize in Physics 2007, announced October 9, 2007. Albert Fert and Peter Grünberg, “for the discovery of Giant Magnetoresistance”. Albert Fert: born 1938, Carcassonne, France. Peter Grünberg: born 1939, Plzen, Czechoslovakia (now Czech Republic). Wiki link Wiki link Data: the Nobel Foundation (CC0).