Talk:Giant magnetoresistance

It is false that the team that created the first product based on GMR was led by Stuart Parkin. In fact the team was led by Virgil Speriosu. The idea for the spin valve originated with Bruce Gurney and Bernard Dieny, a French visiting scientist. Parkin's role in the invention of the spin valve is relatively insignificant although he made major contributions to the underlying science.

I know about this since:

a) I was already working on GMR before Dieny, Gurney and Speriosu submitted their first paper;

b) I visited IBM Almaden in 1991 and talked to the team before their work was published.

-- Alison Chaiken, alison@wsrcc.com

I left the "discovery" section intact, but from all the papers I have seen, GMR was actually first reported in the literature by M. N. Baibich (in an article with Alfred Fert as a co-author). Is there any reason that his name has been left out of the article? Even if he was a student and Alfred Fertz was the driving force behind the research, the team obviously decided to put M. N. Baibich as first author on the paper and I don't see why he should be left out.