Professor Dr.
Stuart Stephen Papworth Parkin
Experimental physicist; Inventor; Educator; Research institution administrator
Area
Mathematical and Physical Sciences
Specialty
Engineering and Technology
Elected
2009
IBM Fellow and Manager, Magnetoelectronics. Numerous discoveries in the field of magnetic thin films enabled the development of high sensitivity sensors in magnetic disk drives such that the capacity in drives has increased 1,000-fold in the last decade. Advances are used in all drives made since 2000. The high density storage he defined contributed to the exponential growth of the internet and to the surge in commodity communications.
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