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- Birth namePeter Andreas Grünberg
- Peter Grünberg was born on May 18, 1939 in Plzen, Czechoslovakia. He was married to Helma Prauser. He died in April 2018 in Jülich, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
- SpouseHelma Prauser(1966 - 2018) (his death, 3 children)
- He shared the 2007 Nobel Prize in physics for the discovery of a process known as giant magnetoresistance, which formed the basis for the fast, precise extraction of enormous amounts of stored information, making modern computers and smartphones possible. The co-laureate was Albert Fert; each scientist led teams that, in 1988, discovered the magnetic phenomenon independently.
- He studied physics at the Goethe University in Frankfurt, Germany and the Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany.
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