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<font size=3>[Forwarding from the American Institute of Physics. --Peter
Suber.]<br><br>
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Papers of 2009 Nobel Laureates Now Freely Available:<br>
<a href="http://www.aip.org/news/nobelprize2009.html" eudora="autourl">
http://www.aip.org/news/nobelprize2009.html</a> <br><br>
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Dear Colleagues,<br><br>
The American Institute of Physics congratulates this year's Nobel
Laureates in<br>
Physics. Sharing half the prize for his work in developing optical fibers
for<br>
telecommunications is Dr. Charles Kao, of Standard Telecommunication<br>
Laboratories, Harlow, UK, and Chinese University of Hong Kong. According
to the<br>
Nobel committee, there's now enough fiber-optic cable on Earth to wrap
around<br>
the globe 25,000 times.<br><br>
Dr. Willard Boyle and Dr. George Smith, formerly of Bell Labs, will share
half<br>
the prize for their invention of the charge-coupled device. While trying
to come<br>
up with a new type of computer memory, they realized the device they
invented<br>
could be used to capture images digitally. Today CCDs are inside
interplanetary<br>
probes, medical devices and digital cameras-from the one on your cell
phone, to<br>
the one on board the Hubble. <br><br>
AIP is pleased to offer you a host of resources on our website, including
an<br>
overview of the work done by these three men, plus related links, photos
and<br>
interviews. We're also happy to make to available free of charge a
selection<br>
of research papers these Nobel Laureates have published in our journals.
To view<br>
any of these materials go to
<a href="http://www.aip.org/news/nobelprize2009.html" eudora="autourl">
http://www.aip.org/news/nobelprize2009.html</a> .<br><br>
Regards,<br><br>
Bruce Shriver<br>
Sr Marketing Manager<br>
American Institute of Physics<br>
2 Huntington Quadrangle, Suite 1NO1<br>
Melville, NY 11747-4502<br>
Phone (516) 576-2623<br>
Email bshriver@aip.org <br>
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