2021 -Professor Stuart Stephen Papworth Parkin

Professor Stuart Stephen Papworth Parkin

King Faisal Prize in Science 2021 Laureate

Topic: "Physics"

Crazy ideas are the way forward to the technologies that will change our world

Nationality: United Kingdom
Born: 9/12/1955, Watford, England, United Kingdom
Professor Stuart Parkin was awarded the prize for his fundamental discoveries and innovations enabling spin-engineered storage devices which have resulted in a 1,000-fold increase in the storage capacity of magnetic disk drives. He developed practical technologies based on spin valves which transformed human access to data and enabled the “big data revolution”. Which in turn allowed for solving intractable problems that depend on fast access to vast quantities of data through machine learning and artificial intelligence, such as predictions to the impact of climate change. In addition, Parkin discovered novel non-volatile magnetic random-access memory (MRAM), which were introduced into the marketplace last year.
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