Nobel physics winners changed our lives - Business Center - PC World

Like the Internet? Own a digital camera? If so, please take a moment to thank today's three Nobel prizewinners for their discoveries.

The three American scientists, honored today with the 2009 Physics prize, helped give us modern telecommunications--including the Internet--and digital photography. Fiber optic cable makes the high-speed communications possible, while charge-coupled devices (CCDs) are the cornerstone of digital photography...