The head of the Department "Electronic Properties", Claus M. Schneider is full professor at the University Duisburg-Essen and member of the Center for Nanointegration Duisburg-Essen (CeNiDE).
Peter Grünberg awarded Nobel Prize in Physics 2007
The Nobel Committee jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 2007 to the PGI-6 researcher Peter Grünberg and his colleague Albert Fert from the University of Paris-Sud. The physicists were honoured for their discovery of the giant magnetoresistance (GMR) effect.
