Transforming the world of hard disks – and another brain wave.
Materials research enters a new dimension Big data, cloud computing, live streaming on the internet – in the era of Facebook, Google, Youtube and so on, life without these technologies is almost inconceivable. These technologies are also inconceivable without the scientist who created the physical bases for them: Stuart Parkin. With his groundbreaking work on magnetic data storage materials at the IBM Almaden Research Center in California, he succeeded in increasing the data density on hard disks by a factor of 1,000. In 2014, he was awarded with the Millennium Technology