Nobel Prize For Disk technology

French Scientist, Albert Fert, and Peter Grunberg, of Germany, have won the 2007 Nobel Prize in physics.
They have been honoured for "the discovery of giant magnetoresistance", the technology that is used to read data on hard disks.

This technology has made it possible to radically miniaturise hard disks in recent years.

Last year, US scientists John C Mather and George F Smoot won for their work examining the infancy of the Universe.

They were honoured for their studies into cosmic microwave background radiation (CMB), the "oldest light" in the Universe.

The research has aided the understanding of galaxies and stars and increased support for the Big Bang theory of the beginning of the Universe.