France's Albert Fert(left) and German Peter Gruenberg(right) discovered a physical effect in 1988 that lets the electronics industry use smaller and smaller disks, a phenomenon called giant magnetoresistance. This ultimately won them the Nobel prize and everyone can agree that it was absolutely necessary. "The MP3 and iPod industry would not have existed without this discovery," Borje Johansson, a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences told The Associated Press. "You would not have an iPod without this effect."
It's amazing what these two have done for the world of tech savvy consumers.
http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/europe/10/09/nobel.physics.ap/index.html
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