The Nobel Prize in Physics 2007

Albert Fert                                            Peter Grunberg

France                                                  Germany

Universite Paris-Sud; Unite                  Forschungszentrum Julich

Mixte de Physique                                Julich, Germany

CNRS/THALES

Orsay, France

b. 1938                                                 b. 1939

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2008

Yoichiro Nambu                                  Makoto Kobayashi                                 Toshihide Maskawa

USA                                                    Japan                                                    Japan

Enrico Fermi Institute                         High Energy Accelerator                       Kyoto Sangyo University;

University of Chicago                         Research Organization                          Yukawa Institute for

Chicago, IL, USA                                 (KEK)                                                    Theoretical Physics (YITP),

                                                          Tsukuba, Japan                                     Kyoto University

                                                                                                                        Kyoto, Japan

b. 1921                                               b. 1944                                                 b. 1940

(in Tokyo, Japan)

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