The decisive factor for being named a Citation Laureate is above all how often a research achievement has been cited in the scientific world. Even though the research itself is not the reason for this award, Stuart Parkin shows that his work could revolutionise commercially available hard disk storage.
Stuart Parkin, Director at the Max Planck Institute for Microstructure Physics in Halle, is honored as Citation Laureate for his research in the field of spintronics and in particular for the development of Racetrack Memories to increase data storage density. He is the only award winner from Germany. The main criterion for this award is that the publications were cited more than 2,000 times in high-ranking journals. ...
More memory on the hard disk: hit of the research world
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