The Nobel Prize in Physics 2010
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physics for 2010 to Andre GeimUniversity of Manchester, UK and Konstantin NovoselovUniversity of Manchester, UK “for groundbreaking experiments regarding the two-dimensional material graphene”.Graphene – the perfect atomic lattice A thin flake of ordinary carbon, just one atom thick, lies behind this year’s Nobel Prize in Physics. Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov have shown that carbon in such a flat form has exceptional properties that originate from the remarkable world of quantum physics.