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Peter Grünberg
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Person

Peter Grünberg

1939 – 2018 · aged 79

German physicist, and Nobel Prize in Physics laureate (1939-2018)

Born
18 May 1939 · Plzeň
Died
7 Apr 2018 · Jülich
Part ofGermany1,250 BCE – todayCzech Republic1316 – todayCatholicism305 CE – today

Life timeline

Their life from birth to death. On the timeline, world events of the time are shown faintly.

Showing 91 years
  1. 18 May 1939BornBorn in Plzeň
  2. 1994AwardIUPAP Magnetism Award and Néel Medal
  3. 1994AwardJames C. McGroddy Prize for New Materials
  4. 1997AwardEPS Europhysics Prize
  5. 1998AwardGerman Future Prize
  6. 2003AwardRitter-von-Gerstner Medal
  7. 2006AwardClarivate Citation Laureates
  8. 2006AwardEuropean Inventor Award
  9. 2006AwardWolf Prize in Physics
  10. 2007AwardJapan Prize
  11. 2007AwardNobel Prize in Physics
  12. 2007AwardStern–Gerlach Medal
  13. 2008AwardOrder of Merit of North Rhine-Westphalia
  14. 7 Apr 2018DiedDied in Jülich

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Meanwhile in the world

Major world events during their lifetime (1939 – 2018).

  1. 1939 – 1940Winter War
  2. 1939 – 1945World War II
  3. 1940 – 1945Auschwitz concentration camp
  4. 1941Attack on Pearl Harbor
  5. 1941 – 1945Eastern Front
  6. 1941Operation Barbarossa
  7. 1942 – 1943Battle of Stalingrad
  8. 1945Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
  9. 1945 – 1946Nuremberg trials
  10. 19501950 FIFA World Cup
  11. 1950 – 1953Korean War
  12. 1953 – 1959Cuban Revolution
  13. 19541954 FIFA World Cup
  14. 1955 – 1975Vietnam War
  15. 1956Hungarian Revolution of 1956
  16. 1956Suez Crisis
  17. 19581958 FIFA World Cup
  18. 1959Antarctic Treaty System
  19. 19621962 FIFA World Cup
  20. 1962Cuban Missile Crisis
  21. 19661966 FIFA World Cup
  22. 1966 – 1976Cultural Revolution
  23. 1968Prague Spring
  24. 1969Apollo 11 Moon landing
  25. 19721972 Summer Olympics
  26. 19741974 FIFA World Cup
  27. 19781978 FIFA World Cup
  28. 1978 – 1979Iranian Revolution
  29. 1979 – 1989Soviet–Afghan War
  30. 1980 – 1988Iran–Iraq War
  31. 19841984 Summer Olympics
  32. 1985Schengen Agreement
  33. 19891989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre
  34. 1989Fall of the Berlin Wall
  35. 19901990 FIFA World Cup
  36. 1991Dissolution of the Soviet Union
  37. 19941994 FIFA World Cup
  38. 1994 – 1996First Chechen War
  39. 19981998 FIFA World Cup
  40. 2001 – 2021War in Afghanistan

Biography

Peter Andreas Grünberg (German: [ˈpeːtɐ ˈɡʁyːnbɛʁk] ; 18 May 1939 – 7 April 2018) was a German physicist, and Nobel Prize in Physics laureate for his discovery with Albert Fert of giant magnetoresistance which brought about a breakthrough in gigabyte hard disk drives.

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