Albert Fert (born 7 March 1938) is a French physicist and one of the discoverers of giant magnetoresistance which brought about a breakthrough in gigabyte hard disks.

Electrical mobility is the ability of charged particles (such as electrons or protons) to move through a medium in response to an electric field that is pulling them.

The Nobel Foundation is a Swedish institution founded in 1900 by the will of Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite.

The Nobel Prize in Physics is one of the prestigious awards given annually by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences to individuals who have made outstanding contributions in the field of physics.

Quantum mechanics is a branch of physics that deals with the behavior of matter and energy on the smallest scales.