British physicist Stuart Parkin, one of the brains behind the global "big data" revolution, on Wednesday won Finland's answer to the Nobel Prize, which is awarded by Technology Academy Finland.
"Prof. Parkin receives the 2014 Millennium Technology Prize in recognition of his discoveries, which have enabled a thousand-fold increase in the storage capacity of magnetic disk drives,"
Professor Parkin's dicovery has enabled us to stream the videos online. He made others to stream the movies and other media via internet.
"Our contemporary online world is largely possible because of these atomically-thin magnetic structures."
Parkin background.
Parkin is a researcher at IBM,a consultant in the Stanford University and an active head of Experimental department of Max Plnk's Institute of Microstructure research in Germany.
Dicovery :
Parkin works on spintronics ( the branch of physics in which people study the spin motion of electrons to store data) has contributed to an explosion in memory capacity around the world
allowing information to be stored in magnetic disk drives accessed
online via the "cloud".
"I am very humbled and proud to have been awarded the prize, which is a tremendous validation by the scientific community of my work and its impact on the world as a whole."
The Millennium Technology Prize is awarded every second year and singles out recent innovations that have already been applied in practice and which "enhance the quality of people's lives in a sustainable manner".
Previous laureates include the creator of the World Wide Web Sir Tim Berners-Lee and ethical stem cell pioneer Shinya Yamanaka.
Technology Academy Finland, which will award the prize on May 7, 2014, is a foundation formed by the Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences in Finland and the national Industry Council.
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