The Nobel Prize in Physics, 2007 was awarded to
Albert Fert and Peter Grünberg
"for the discovery of Giant Magnetoresistance"
http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/p...007/index.html

In addition, they had won the 2006/7 Wolf Foundation Prize in Physics
Here's that story from PhysicsWorld
http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/news/26819

They also won the 2007 Japan Prize
http://www.japanprize.jp/video/index_e.htm,...

Sputnik was launched 50 years ago.


NASA has a site on the event:
http://history.nasa.gov/sputnik/
and apparently has a video of Sputnik
http://history.nasa.gov/SP-4225/imag...deos/v-008.mpg
from
http://history.nasa.gov/SP-4225/mult...fore-video.htm


read more:
http://www.nytimes.com/partners/aol/special/sputnik/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sputnik_1...

The annual NSF Science & Engineering Visualization Challenge prizes have been awarded.
http://www.nsf.gov/news/special_repo...jsp?id=win2007
http://www.sciencemag.org/sciext/vis2007/


Some things of interest [to me] that were mentioned:

"Mobius Transformation Revealed" by Douglas Arnold & Jonathan Rogness, U Minnesota
(tied for Honorable Mention in the Noninteractive Media)
...

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JETS National Engineering Design Challenge
<blockquote>What is the NEDC?

The JETS National Engineering Design Challenge is an annual real-world design challenge for high school students. It’s a team competition in which students design an assistive technology device (AT) to help people with disabilities enter or advance in the workplace. The NEDC is a cross-curricular activity that involves problem-solving skills, math, science, research, writing, presentation, and...