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Increased data storage density
![Physicist Stuart Parkin](https://millenniumprize.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/DSC2061-scaled.jpg)
Physicist Stuart Parkin won the 2014 Millennium Technology Prize for his pioneering contribution to the science and application of nano-magnetic material properties, spintronics. His innovations have enabled vast increases in digital storage, which have greatly facilitated the ‘big data’ revolution and significantly transformed human access to knowledge.